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Jupiter Cloud Animation from Juno

Пн, Май 21, 2018 - 7:30

How do Jupiter's clouds move? To help find out, images taken with NASA's Juno spacecraft during its last pass near Jupiter have been analyzed and digitally extrapolated into a time-lapse video.

In the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula

Вс, Май 20, 2018 - 8:30

In the heart of monstrous Tarantula Nebula lies huge bubbles of energetic gas, long filaments of dark dust, and unusually massive stars. In the center of this heart, is a knot of stars so dense that it was once thought to be a single star.

Reflections of Venus and Moon

Сб, Май 19, 2018 - 8:30

Posing near the western horizon, a brilliant evening star and slender young crescent shared reflections in a calm sea last Thursday after sunset. Recorded in this snapshot from the Atlantic beach at Santa Marinella...

Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 мая 2018 года

Пт, Май 18, 2018 - 18:46

На данной неделе произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,44+) звезды пси Льва (5,4m) при видимости в Сибири и на Севере страны. 22 мая Луна сблизится..

Календарь наблюдателя на июнь 2018 года

Пт, Май 18, 2018 - 18:40

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела,

Attack of the Laser Guide Stars

Пт, Май 18, 2018 - 7:30

Dodging powerful laser beams, a drone captured this stunning aerial view. The confrontation took place above the 8.2 meter diameter Very Large Telescopes of the Paranal Observatory on planet Earth. Firing during a test...

Milky Way vs Airglow Australis

Чт, Май 17, 2018 - 8:30

Captured last week after sunset on a Chilean autumn night, an exceptional airglow floods this allsky view from Las Campanas Observatory. The airglow was so intense it diminished parts of the Milky Way as it arced horizon to horizon above the..

Rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ср, Май 16, 2018 - 8:30

This image is not blurry. It shows in clear detail that the largest satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, the Large Cloud of Magellan (LMC), rotates. First determined with Hubble, the rotation of the LMC is presented here with fine data..

Kepler s House in Linz

Вт, Май 15, 2018 - 8:30

Four hundred years ago today (May 15, 1618) Johannes Kepler discovered the simple mathematical rule governing the orbits of the solar system's planets, now recognized as Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion.

Saturns Hyperion in Natural Color

Пн, Май 14, 2018 - 8:30

What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in 2005 and 2010 and took images of unprecedented detail.

Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning

Вс, Май 13, 2018 - 8:30

Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting in 2013 January. Magma bubbles so hot they glowed shot away as liquid rock burst through the Earth's..