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NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared

Вс, Ноябрь 19, 2017 - 7:30

Young stars themselves are clearing out their nursery in NGC 7822. Within the nebula, bright edges and complex dust sculptures dominate this detailed skyscape taken in infrared light by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)..

Friday the Moon Smiled

Сб, Ноябрь 18, 2017 - 7:30

Friday, an old Moon smiled for early morning risers. Its waning sunlit crescent is captured in this atmospheric scene from clear skies near Bursa, Turkey, planet Earth. In the subtle twilight hues nearby celestial lights are Jupiter (top)..

Астрономическая неделя с 20 по 26 ноября 2017 года

Пт, Ноябрь 17, 2017 - 20:16

На данной неделе Луна (Ф= 0,05+) пройдет близ Сатурна. 21 ноября наступит максимум действия метеорного потока альфа-Моноцеротиды (ZHR= 5) из..

Major Fireball Meteor

Пт, Ноябрь 17, 2017 - 8:30

The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista. Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain pass on November 14.

The Tarantula Nebula

Чт, Ноябрь 16, 2017 - 8:30

The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. The largest, most violent star...

NGC 7789: Caroline’s Rose

Ср, Ноябрь 15, 2017 - 7:30

Found among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is..

The Pleiades Deep and Dusty

Вт, Ноябрь 14, 2017 - 8:30

The well-known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth's sky and can be seen from almost any northerly location with the unaided..

Comet Machholz Approaches the Sun

Пн, Ноябрь 13, 2017 - 8:30

Why is Comet Maccholz so depleted of carbon-containing chemicals? Comet 96P/Machholz's original fame derives from its getting closer to the Sun than any other short period comet -- half as close as Mercury -- and doing so every five..

A Happy Sky over Los Angeles

Вс, Ноябрь 12, 2017 - 8:30

Sometimes, the sky may seem to smile over much of planet Earth. On this day in 2008, visible the world over, was an unusual superposition of our Moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter.

A Colourful Moon

Сб, Ноябрь 11, 2017 - 8:30

The Moon is normally seen in subtle shades of grey. But small, measurable color differences have been greatly exaggerated in this mosaic of high-resolution images captured near the Moon's full phase, to construct a multicolored, central..

Астрономическая неделя с 13 по 19 ноября 2017 года

Пт, Ноябрь 10, 2017 - 20:08

На данной неделе Венера пройдет в 0,3 гр. севернее Юпитера. В середине недели Луна (Ф= 0,1-) пройдет близ Марса, а комета P/Schaumasse (24P) достигнет..

Williamina Fleming s Triangular Wisp

Пт, Ноябрь 10, 2017 - 8:30

Chaotic in appearance, these tangled filaments of shocked, glowing gas are spread across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding