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Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula

Вт, Май 31, 2016 - 8:30

To some, it looks like a giant chicken running across the sky. To others, it looks like a gaseous nebula where star formation takes place. Cataloged as IC 2944, the Running Chicken Nebula spans about 100 light years and lies about..

Galaxy Evolution Tracking Animation

Пн, Май 30, 2016 - 8:30

How did the universe evolve from such a smooth beginning? To help understand, computational cosmologists and NASA produced the featured time-lapse animated video depicting a computer simulation of part of the universe. The 100-million..

И рыба, и удочка

Вс, Май 29, 2016 - 12:44

Обнаружение первого гравитационно-волнового всплеска на установках LIGO это не только подтверждение важного предсказания Общей..

Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars

Вс, Май 29, 2016 - 8:30

Mars will look good in Earth's skies over the next few days -- but not this good. To get a view this amazing, a spacecraft had to actually visit the red planet. Running across the image center, though, is one the largest canyons in the

Cat s Eye Wide and Deep

Сб, Май 28, 2016 - 8:30

The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its more familiar outlines are seen in the brighter central region of the nebula in this impressive wide-angle view. But the composite image combines..

Астрономическая неделя с 30 мая по 5 июня 2016 года

Пт, Май 27, 2016 - 15:35

На данной неделе 30 мая Луна окажется в нисходящем узле орбиты, а Марс на наименьшем расстоянии от Земли 0,503 а.е.. 1 июня Венера..

The Great Carina Nebula

Пт, Май 27, 2016 - 8:30

A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great...

IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula

Чт, Май 26, 2016 - 8:30

The prominent ridge of emission featured in this sharp, colorful skyscape is cataloged as IC 5067. Part of a larger emission nebula with a distinctive shape, popularly called The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years..

NGC 5078 and Friends

Ср, Май 25, 2016 - 8:30

This sharp telescopic field of view holds two bright galaxies. Barred spiral NGC 5101 (top right) and nearly edge-on system NGC 5078 are separated on the sky by about 0.5 degrees or about the apparent width of a full moon.

Milky Way Over the Spanish Peaks

Вт, Май 24, 2016 - 8:30

That's not lightning, and it did not strike between those mountains. The diagonal band is actually the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, while the twin peaks are actually called the Spanish Peaks -- but located in Colorado, USA.

Inside a Daya Bay Antineutrino Detector

Пн, Май 23, 2016 - 8:30

Why is there more matter than antimatter in the Universe? To better understand this facet of basic physics, energy departments in China and the USA led in the creation of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment.

LL Orionis: When Cosmic Winds Collide

Вс, Май 22, 2016 - 8:30

What created this great arc in space? This arcing, graceful structure is actually a bow shock about half a light-year across, created as the wind from young star LL Orionis collides with the Orion Nebula flow.