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Астрономическая неделя с 22 по 28 января 2024 года

Пн, Январь 15, 2024 - 12:28

На данной неделе 23 января Луна (Ф= 0,93+) пройдет точку максимального склонения к северу от небесного экватора, а комета P/Tsuchinshan (62P)..

APOD: 2024 January 15 Б Star Cluster IC 348 from Webb

Пн, Январь 15, 2024 - 8:30

Sometimes, it's the stars that are the hardest to see that are the most interesting. IC 348 is a young star cluster that illuminates surrounding filamentary dust. The stringy and winding dust appears pink in this recently released..

APOD: 2024 January 14 Б Dragon Aurora over Iceland

Вс, Январь 14, 2024 - 8:30

Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don't exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused...

Circling the Sun

Сб, Январь 13, 2024 - 8:30

Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it's an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year...

Good Morning Moon

Пт, Январь 12, 2024 - 7:30

Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn.

Quadrantids of the North

Чт, Январь 11, 2024 - 8:30

Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower's radiant on the sky lies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans..

The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty

Ср, Январь 10, 2024 - 8:30

This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive...

Астрономическая неделя с 15 по 21 января 2024 года

Вт, Январь 09, 2024 - 13:29

На данной неделе 15 января Луна (Ф= 0,25+) пройдет южнее Нептуна (покрытие при видимости в Южной Америке), а 20 января Луна (Ф= 0,76+) будет..

APOD: 2024 January 9 Б Thors Helmet

Вт, Январь 09, 2024 - 8:30

Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about..

APOD: 2024 January 8 Б The Phases of Venus

Пн, Январь 08, 2024 - 8:30

Venus goes through phases. Just like our Moon, Venus can appear as a full circular disk, a thin crescent, or anything in between. Venus, frequently the brightest object in the post-sunset or pre-sunrise sky, appears so small,

APOD: 2024 January 7 Б The Cats Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray

Вс, Январь 07, 2024 - 7:30

To some it looks like a cat's eye. To others, perhaps like a giant cosmic conch shell. It is actually one of the brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase..

The Snows of Churyumov Gerasimenko

Сб, Январь 06, 2024 - 8:30

You couldn't really be caught in this blizzard while standing by a cliff on periodic comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Orbiting the comet in June of 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle camera did record...