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The Multiwavelength Crab

Чт, Май 11, 2017 - 8:30

The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, expanding debris from massive star's death explosion, witnessed..

UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble

Ср, Май 10, 2017 - 8:30

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its

Календарь наблюдателя на июнь 2017 года

Вт, Май 09, 2017 - 18:07

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

Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes

Вт, Май 09, 2017 - 8:30

Do you see it? This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. This grouping of stars is one of the few things that has likely..

Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars

Пн, Май 08, 2017 - 8:30

This was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken by the robotic Curiosity rover currently exploring the red planet. Named Ogunquit Beach after its terrestrial..

Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula

Вс, Май 07, 2017 - 8:30

What's all of the commotion in the Tadpole nebula? Star formation. Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga).

Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 and Beyond

Сб, Май 06, 2017 - 8:30

Some 4 billion light-years away, massive galaxy cluster Abell 370 only appears to be dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies and infested with faint arcs in this sharp Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. The fainter...

Астрономическая неделя с 8 по 14 мая 2017 года

Пт, Май 05, 2017 - 21:36

На данной неделе долгопериодическая звезда V Змееносца достигнет максимума блеска (6,5m), а комета C/2015 ER61 ( PanSTARRS ) пройдет перигелий своей..

The Bull s Eye and the Young Moon

Пт, Май 05, 2017 - 8:30

Aldebaran, eye of Taurus the Bull, and a young crescent Moon shared an early evening sky last Friday. The lovely celestial pairing could be enjoyed around planet Earth, but from some locations the Moon was even seen to pass in front of

Юрию Николаевичу Ефремову – 80 лет

Чт, Май 04, 2017 - 15:40

11 мая 2017 года исполняется 80 лет Юрию Николаевичу Ефремову - выдающемуся российскому астроному, доктору физико-математических наук,..

The Perseus Cluster Waves

Чт, Май 04, 2017 - 8:30

The cosmic swirl and slosh of giant waves in an enormous reservoir of glowing hot gas are traced in this enhanced X-ray image from the Chandra Observatory. The frame spans over 1 million light-years across the center of the nearby Perseus..

NGC 3628: The Hamburger Galaxy

Ср, Май 03, 2017 - 7:30

No, hamburgers are not this big. What is pictured is a sharp telescopic views of a magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep galactic portrait puts some..