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Lightning Storm Moves Across the USA

Пн, Май 15, 2017 - 8:30

Watch a huge lightning storm move across the eastern USA. The huge storm caused much damage and unfortunately some loss of life for people in its path. Seen from space, the lightning is seen as momentary flashes in the featured time-lapse..

Ganymede: The Largest Moon

Вс, Май 14, 2017 - 8:30

What does the largest moon in the Solar System look like? Jupiter's moon Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has an icy surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain..

Planet Aurora

Сб, Май 13, 2017 - 8:30

What bizarre alien planet is this? It's planet Earth of course, seen from the International Space Station through the shimmering glow of aurorae. About 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth, the orbiting station is itself within the..

Астрономическая неделя с 15 по 21 мая 2017 года

Пт, Май 12, 2017 - 22:50

На данной неделе Меркурий достигнет самой худшей в году по видимости в средних и северных широтах страны утренней (западной) элонгации..

M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Пт, Май 12, 2017 - 8:30

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course...

The Multiwavelength Crab

Чт, Май 11, 2017 - 8:30

The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, expanding debris from massive star's death explosion, witnessed..

UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble

Ср, Май 10, 2017 - 8:30

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its

Календарь наблюдателя на июнь 2017 года

Вт, Май 09, 2017 - 18:07

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела, доступные для наблюдений..

Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes

Вт, Май 09, 2017 - 8:30

Do you see it? This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. This grouping of stars is one of the few things that has likely..

Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

Пн, Май 08, 2017 - 8:30

This was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken by the robotic Curiosity rover currently exploring the red planet. Named Ogunquit Beach after its terrestrial..

Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula

Вс, Май 07, 2017 - 8:30

What's all of the commotion in the Tadpole nebula? Star formation. Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga).

Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 and Beyond

Сб, Май 06, 2017 - 8:30

Some 4 billion light-years away, massive galaxy cluster Abell 370 only appears to be dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies and infested with faint arcs in this sharp Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. The fainter...