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Approaching Pluto

Ср, Май 27, 2015 - 7:30

Here comes Pluto. NASA's robotic New Horizons spacecraft is now beyond the orbit of Neptune and closing fast on the Solar System's most famous unexplored world. The featured time lapse video shows...

What could cause the center of M94 to be so bright? Spiral galaxy M94 has a ring of newly formed stars surrounding its nucleus, giving it not only an unusual appearance but also a strong interior glow.

Календарь наблюдателя на июнь 2015 года

Пн, Май 25, 2015 - 23:51

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника Календарь наблюдателя расскажет об основных явлениях..

Галактическое дерево

Пн, Май 25, 2015 - 8:30

Сперва появилось дерево. Фотограф из города Саламанка в Испании заметил, как необычно растут ветви дубов, после того как их

The Galaxy Tree

Пн, Май 25, 2015 - 8:30

First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy. The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the

Space Shuttle Rising

Вс, Май 24, 2015 - 10:30

What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. Sometimes, if you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time, you could have seen something very unusual -- a space shuttle launching to orbit.

Space Shuttle Rising

Вс, Май 24, 2015 - 10:30

NGC 7822 in Cepheus

Сб, Май 23, 2015 - 8:30

Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within..

Астрономическая неделя с 25 по 31 мая 2015 года

Пт, Май 22, 2015 - 17:31

На данной неделе Меркурий пройдет в полутора градусах южнее Марса и достигнет нижнего соединения с Солнцем. Кроме этого, комета..

A Dark and Dusty Sky

Пт, Май 22, 2015 - 8:30

In the dusty sky toward the constellation Taurus and the Orion Arm of our Milky Way Galaxy, this broad mosaic follows dark and faint reflection nebulae along the region's fertile molecular cloud.

NGC 6240: Merging Galaxies

Чт, Май 21, 2015 - 8:30

NGC 6240 offers a rare, nearby glimpse of a cosmic catastrophe in its final throes. The titanic galaxy-galaxy collision takes place a mere 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The merging galaxies spew distorted..

A Cliff Looming on Comet 67P

Ср, Май 20, 2015 - 9:30

What that looming behind this gravel-strewn hill on Comet ChuryumovGerasimenko? A jagged cliff. The unusual double-lobed nucleus of Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko lends itself to unusual and dramatic vistas, another of which has been..