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M31 versus M33

Сб, Сентябрь 26, 2015 - 8:30

Separated by about 14 degrees (28 Full Moons) in planet Earth's sky, spiral galaxies M31 at left, and M33 are both large members of the Local Group, along with our own Milky Way galaxy.

Календарь наблюдателя на октябрь 2015 года

Пт, Сентябрь 25, 2015 - 21:13

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника Календарь наблюдателя расскажет об основных явлениях..

Астрономическая неделя с 28 сентября по 4 октября 2015 года

Пт, Сентябрь 25, 2015 - 18:18

На данной неделе полное лунное затмение затмит своей зрелищностью все остальные явления описываемого периода, хотя и они достойны..

A mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa sprawls some 530 kilometers (330 miles) across this Plutonian landscape. Recently downloaded from New Horizons, it combines blue, red, and infrared image data in an extended color..

New Double-Mode RR Lyrae Variables III

Чт, Сентябрь 24, 2015 - 15:41

We present a new study of 123 known RR Lyrae variable stars from the Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog. We analyzed all observations available for these stars in the Catalina Surveys online public archives using the..

LDN 988 and Friends

Чт, Сентябрь 24, 2015 - 8:30

Stars are forming in dark, dusty molecular cloud LDN 988. Seen near picture center some 2,000 light-years distant, LDN 988 and other nearby dark nebulae were cataloged by Beverly T. Lynds in 1962 using Palomar Observatory Sky Survey..

Antarctic Analemma

Ср, Сентябрь 23, 2015 - 8:30

Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A better and more visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year.

Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina

Вт, Сентябрь 22, 2015 - 8:30

What are those streaks of light in the sky? First and foremost, the arching structure is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Visible in this galactic band are millions of distant stars mixed with numerous lanes of dark dust.

Spiral Galaxy M96 from Hubble

Пн, Сентябрь 21, 2015 - 8:30

Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the center of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting...

Global Ocean Suspected on Saturns Enceladus

Вс, Сентябрь 20, 2015 - 8:30

Do some surface features on Enceladus roll like a conveyor belt? A leading interpretation of images taken of Saturn's most explosive moon indicate that they do. This form of asymmetric tectonic activity, very...

A Prominence on the Sun

Сб, Сентябрь 19, 2015 - 8:30

This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun's eastern horizon on September 16. Captured through a backyard telescope and narrowband filter in light from ionized..