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A Kalahari Sky

Вт, Май 30, 2017 - 7:30

You wake up in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa. You go outside your tent, set up your camera, and take long exposures of the land and sky. What might you see? Besides a lot of blowing dust and the occasional acacia..

Журнал “Небосвод” за июнь 2017 года

Пн, Май 29, 2017 - 21:24

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

Beneath Jupiter

Пн, Май 29, 2017 - 7:30

Jupiter is stranger than we knew. NASA's Juno spacecraft has now completed its sixth swoop past Jupiter as it moves around its highly elliptical orbit. Pictured, Jupiter is seen from below where, surprisingly, the horizontal bands..

Collapse in Hebes Chasma on Mars

Вс, Май 28, 2017 - 8:30

What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon. Since the depression is unconnected to other surface features, it is unclear where the internal material went.

Comet Clark is near the Edge.

Сб, Май 27, 2017 - 7:30

Sweeping through this stunning field of view, Comet 71P/Clark really is in the foreground of these cosmic clouds. The 2 panel telescopic mosaic is color enhanced and is about 5 degrees (10 full moons) across.

Астрономическая неделя с 29 мая по 4 июня 2017 года

Пт, Май 26, 2017 - 21:08

На данной неделе Луна (Ф= 0,25+) пройдет 30 мая в 4 градусах южнее рассеянного звездного скопления Ясли (М44), Юпитер 31 мая на некоторое время..

Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744

Пт, Май 26, 2017 - 7:30

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo appearing as a faint, extended object in small..

Календарь наблюдателя на июль 2017 года

Чт, Май 25, 2017 - 21:41

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела, доступные для наблюдений..

Star Cluster, Spiral Galaxy, Supernova

Чт, Май 25, 2017 - 8:30

A cosmic snapshot from May 19, this colorful telescopic field of view spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons on the sky. Spiky in appearance, foreground Milky Way stars are scattered toward...

NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge

Ср, Май 24, 2017 - 8:30

Is our Galaxy this thin? We believe so. Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern..

Approaching Jupiter

Вт, Май 23, 2017 - 8:30

What would it look like to approach Jupiter? To help answer this, a team of 91 amateur astrophotographers took over 1,000 pictures of Jupiter from the Earth with the resulting images aligned and digitally merged into the featured time-lapse..

A Zodiacal Sky over Horseshoe Bend

Пн, Май 22, 2017 - 8:30

What's causing the unusual ray of white light extending upward from the central horizon? Dust orbiting the Sun. At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System rises prominently before sunrise and is..