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A Colorful Lunar Corona

Пн, Июнь 15, 2015 - 16:30

What are those colorful rings around the Moon? A corona. Rings like this will sometimes appear when the Moon is seen through thin clouds. The effect is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual,..

M101: галактика Вертушка

Пн, Июнь 15, 2015 - 16:30

Почему многие галактики выглядят как спирали? Ярким примером может служить изображенная на этой картинке M101. Сравнительно..

Календарь наблюдателя на июль 2015 года

Сб, Июнь 13, 2015 - 14:01

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника Календарь наблюдателя расскажет об основных явлениях..

1000 Sols

Сб, Июнь 13, 2015 - 7:30

Shortly before Mars' June 2015 conjunction, the Curiosity Rover celebrated 1000 sols on the red planet. After its August 5, 2012 landing, Curiosity's 1000th sol or martian day on the surface corresponded to planet Earth's calendar date May..

Астрономическая неделя с 15 по 21 июня 2015 года

Пт, Июнь 12, 2015 - 11:08

На данной неделе произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,02) планеты Меркурий и звезды Альдебаран, долгопериодическая переменная звезда R..

The Medusa Nebula

Пт, Июнь 12, 2015 - 7:30

Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away along the southern border of the constellation

The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty

Чт, Июнь 11, 2015 - 8:30

This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region...

Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres

Ср, Июнь 10, 2015 - 7:30

What would it look like to fly over dwarf planet Ceres? Animators from the German Aerospace Center recently took actual images and height data from NASA's robotic Dawn mission -- currently visiting Ceres -- to generate several fascinating..

Galaxy NGC 7714 After Collision

Вт, Июнь 09, 2015 - 8:30

Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars? Probably not. Although the precise dynamics behind the featured image is yet unclear, what is clear is that the pictured galaxy, NGC 7714, has been stretched and distorted by a..

The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon

Пн, Июнь 08, 2015 - 7:30

What's that glowing in the distance? Although it may look like a lighthouse, the rays of light near the horizon actually emanate from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. Some temple lights are even reflected in the

NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula

Вс, Июнь 07, 2015 - 8:30

It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. Nicknamed the Eight-Burst Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, the glowing gas originated in the outer layers of a..

Into the Void

Сб, Июнь 06, 2015 - 8:30

Fifty years ago, on June 3, 1965, Edward White stepped out of the orbiting Gemini 4 spacecraft to become the first US astronaut to walk in space. White is captured in this photo taken...