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Comet Siding Spring Passes Mars

Пн, Октябрь 20, 2014 - 7:30

Yesterday, a comet passed very close to Mars. In fact, Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) passed closer to the red planet than any comet has ever passed to Earth in recorded history. To take...

Comet McNaught Over New Zealand

Вс, Октябрь 19, 2014 - 7:30

Comet McNaught was perhaps the most photogenic comet of modern times -- from Earth. After making quite a show in the northern hemisphere in early January of 2007, the comet moved south and developed a long and unusual dust tail that

Аннотации основных статей журнала «Земля и Вселенная» №5, 2014

Сб, Октябрь 18, 2014 - 15:46

Melotte 15 in the Heart

Сб, Октябрь 18, 2014 - 7:30

Cosmic clouds form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. The clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15.

Melotte 15 in the Heart

Сб, Октябрь 18, 2014 - 7:30

Астрономическая неделя с 20 по 26 октября 2014 года

Пт, Октябрь 17, 2014 - 16:10

На данной неделе (весьма насыщенной явлениями) Луна пройдет перед Солнцем, частично затмив его (видимость на Востоке страны), три..

Аннотации основных статей журнала «Земля и Вселенная» №5, 2014

Пт, Октябрь 17, 2014 - 13:25

Messier 6 and Comet Siding Spring

Пт, Октябрь 17, 2014 - 8:30

This looks like a near miss but the greenish coma and tail of Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) are really 2,000 light-years or so away from the stars of open cluster Messier 6. They do appear close together though, along the same..

Rosetta s Selfie

Чт, Октябрь 16, 2014 - 8:30

This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th. At the time the spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Looming beyond...

Mysterious Changing feature on Titan

Ср, Октябрь 15, 2014 - 7:30

What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? Radar images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have been recording the surface of the cloud-engulfed moon Titan for years. When...

Auroral Corona over Norway

Вт, Октябрь 14, 2014 - 8:30

Higher than the highest mountain lies the realm of the aurora. Auroras rarely reach below 60 kilometers, and can range up to 1000 kilometers. Aurora light results from energetic electrons and protons striking atoms and molecules in..

Sprite Lightning in Slow Motion

Пн, Октябрь 13, 2014 - 8:30

What causes sprite lightning? Mysterious bursts of light in the sky that momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish have been recorded for over 25 years, but their root cause remains unknown. Some thunderstorms have them -- most don't.