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Eagle Aurora over Norway

Вс, Октябрь 23, 2016 - 7:30

What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days before this 2012 image was taken, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth.

Cerro Tololo Trails

Сб, Октябрь 22, 2016 - 8:30

Early one moonlit evening car lights left a wandering trail along the road to the Chilean Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Setting stars left the wandering trails in the sky. The serene view toward the mountainous horizon was..

Астрономическая неделя с 24 по 30 октября 2016 года

Пт, Октябрь 21, 2016 - 20:39

На данной неделе Венера пройдет в 3 градусах севернее Антареса и в 3 градусах южнее Сатурна, а Меркурий вступит в верхнее соединение с..

Variable Stars in Cygnus Discovered with Kourovka Planet Search. Part II: Eclipsing binaries of Beta

Пт, Октябрь 21, 2016 - 15:13

Full Moon in Mountain Shadow

Пт, Октябрь 21, 2016 - 8:30

On October 15, standing near the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea and looking away from a gorgeous sunset produced this magnificent snapshot of a Full Moon rising within the volcanic mountain's shadow. An alignment across the Solar System is..

The Tulip in the Swan

Чт, Октябрь 20, 2016 - 8:30

Framing a bright emission region this telescopic view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the nebula rich constellation Cygnus the Swan. Popularly called the Tulip Nebula, the glowing cloud of interstellar gas and dust..

M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster

Ср, Октябрь 19, 2016 - 8:30

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as dusty as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars even from..

The Antlia Cluster of Galaxies

Вт, Октябрь 18, 2016 - 8:30

Galaxies dot the sky in this impressively wide and deep image of the Antlia Cluster. The third closest cluster of galaxies to Earth after Virgo and Fornax, the Antlia cluster is known for its compactness and its high fraction of

An Atlas V Rocket Launches OSIRIS REx

Пн, Октябрь 17, 2016 - 8:30

Have you ever seen a rocket launched into the Solar System? Last month a large Atlas V rocket blasted off from Launch Complex 41 in Florida carrying the ORISIX-REx spacecraft. This robotic spacecraft will attempt to land on Asteroid..

Cylindrical Mountains on Venus

Вс, Октябрь 16, 2016 - 8:30

What could cause a huge cylindrical mountain to rise from the surface of Venus? Such features that occur on Venus are known as coronas. Pictured here in the foreground is 500-kilometer wide Atete Corona found in a region of Venus known as..

Календарь наблюдателя на декабрь 2016 года

Сб, Октябрь 15, 2016 - 20:26

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника Календарь наблюдателя расскажет об основных явлениях..

Gemini Observatory North

Сб, Октябрь 15, 2016 - 8:30

It does look like a flying saucer, but this technologically advanced structure is not here to deliver the wise extraterrestrial from the scifi classic movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. It is here to advance our knowledge of the Universe..