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Астрономическая неделя с 28 ноября по 4 декабря 2016 года

Пт, Ноябрь 25, 2016 - 21:27

На данной неделе максимума блеска достигнут долгопериодические переменные звезды R Ворона, R Волопаса, R Гончих Псов и R Треугольника,..

Apollo 17 VIP Site Analglyph

Пт, Ноябрь 25, 2016 - 8:30

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph features a detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and

Ring Scan

Чт, Ноябрь 24, 2016 - 7:30

Scroll right and you can cruise along the icy rings of Saturn. This high resolution scan is a mosaic of images presented in natural color. The images were recorded in May 2007 over about 2.5 hours as the Cassini spacecraft passed above

NGC 7635: Bubble in a Cosmic Sea

Ср, Ноябрь 23, 2016 - 8:30

Do you see the bubble in the center? Seemingly adrift in a cosmic sea of stars and glowing gas, the delicate, floating apparition in this widefield view is cataloged as NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula.

Plutos Sputnik Planum

Вт, Ноябрь 22, 2016 - 8:30

Is there an ocean below Sputnik Planum on Pluto? The unusually smooth 1000-km wide golden expanse, visible in the featured image from New Horizons, appears segmented into convection cells. But how was this region created?

Nova over Thailand

Пн, Ноябрь 21, 2016 - 8:30

A nova in Sagittarius is bright enough to see with binoculars. Detected last month, the stellar explosion even approached the limit of naked-eye visibility last week. A classical nova results from a thermonuclear explosion...

NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy

Вс, Ноябрь 20, 2016 - 8:30

How much mass do flocculent spirals hide? The featured true color image of flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to help answer this question. The featured image was augmented with data from the

IC 5070: A Dusty Pelican in the Swan

Сб, Ноябрь 19, 2016 - 7:30

The recognizable profile of the Pelican Nebula soars nearly 2,000 light-years away in the high flying constellation Cygnus, the Swan. Also known as IC 5070, this interstellar cloud of gas and dust...

Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 ноября 2016 года

Пт, Ноябрь 18, 2016 - 19:45

На данной неделе метеорный поток альфа-Моноцеротиды достигнет максимума действия (21 ноября), а Луна примет фазу последней четверти. 23..

MASTER OT J190519.41+301524.4: A New Eclipsing Cataclysmic Variable of the VY Scl Type

Пт, Ноябрь 18, 2016 - 11:14

MASTER OT J190519.41+301524.4 was discovered as a 15m.7 optical transient by the Mobile Astronomical System of TElescope-Robots (MASTER) in March, 2014. We report the results of photometric observations of this variable performed at the..

Philadelphia Perigee Full Moon

Пт, Ноябрь 18, 2016 - 7:30

A supermoon sets over the metropolis of Philadelphia in this twilight snapshot captured on November 14 at 6:21am Eastern Standard Time. Within hours of the Moon's exact full phase, that time does correspond to a lunar perigee or the closest..

Soyuz vs Supermoon

Чт, Ноябрь 17, 2016 - 8:30

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, this Soyuz rocket stands on the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 14.