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A Year of Full Moons

Вс, Ноябрь 05, 2017 - 7:30

Do all full moons look the same? No. To see the slight differences, consider this grid of twelve full moons. From upper left to lower right, the images represent every lunation from 2016 November through 2017 October, as imaged from

Hubble s Messier 5

Сб, Ноябрь 04, 2017 - 6:30

"Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] & the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters. Though it appeared...

Астрономическая неделя с 6 по 12 ноября 2017 года

Пт, Ноябрь 03, 2017 - 20:56

На данной неделе Луна (Ф= 0,95-) пройдет перигей своей орбиты на расстоянии от центра Земли 361440 км и произойдет покрытие Луной звезд..

A 2017 U1: An Interstellar Visitor

Пт, Ноябрь 03, 2017 - 7:30

Traveling at high velocity along an extreme hyperbolic orbit and making a hairpin turn as it swung past the Sun, the now designated A/2017 U1 is the first known small body from interstellar space.

NGC 891 vs Abell 347

Чт, Ноябрь 02, 2017 - 6:30

Distant galaxies lie beyond a foreground of spiky Milky Way stars in this telescopic field of view. Centered on yellowish star HD 14771, the scene spans about 1 degree on the sky toward the northern constellation Andromeda. At top right..

Thors Helmet Emission Nebula

Ср, Ноябрь 01, 2017 - 7:30

This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet spans about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more...

Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe

Вт, Октябрь 31, 2017 - 6:30

Is our universe haunted? It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters...

Сравнение баз данных по экзопланетам

Вт, Октябрь 31, 2017 - 1:04

Представлено описание основных баз данных по экзопланетам. Рассмотрено четыре он-лайн каталога экзопланет,

Orionid Meteors from Orion

Пн, Октябрь 30, 2017 - 7:30

Meteors have been shooting out from the constellation of Orion. This was expected, as October is the time of year for the Orionids Meteor Shower. Pictured here, over a dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures last..

Журнал “Небосвод” за ноябрь 2017 года

Вс, Октябрь 29, 2017 - 20:21

Очередной выпуск бесплатного электронно-печатного издания для любителей астрономии Небосвод....

Night on a Spooky Planet

Вс, Октябрь 29, 2017 - 7:30

What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth of course, on a dark and stormy night in 2013 at Hverir, a geothermally active area along the volcanic landscape in northeastern Iceland. Geomagnetic storms produced...

NGC 6369: The Little Ghost Nebula

Сб, Октябрь 28, 2017 - 7:30

Wraithlike NGC 6369 is a faint apparition in night skies popularly known as the Little Ghost Nebula. It was discovered by 18th century astronomer Sir William Herschel as he used a telescope to explore the medicinal constellation Ophiucus.