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Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE

Пн, Декабрь 01, 2014 - 9:30

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, this glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away.

Звёзды и пылевые столбы в NGC 7822 от WISE

Пн, Декабрь 01, 2014 - 8:30

Туманность NGC 7822 заполонили горячие молодые звёзды и столбы космического газа и пыли. Эта область звездообразования находится на..

The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Вс, Ноябрь 30, 2014 - 9:30

It may look like a grazing seahorse, but the dark object toward the image right is actually a pillar of smoky dust about 20 light years long. The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star..

The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Вс, Ноябрь 30, 2014 - 8:30

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Сб, Ноябрь 29, 2014 - 16:56

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3D 67P

Сб, Ноябрь 29, 2014 - 9:30

Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to a comet! The Rosetta mission lander Philae's ROLIS camera snapped the two frames used to create this stereo anaglyph for 3D viewing during...

Астрономическая неделя с 1 по 7 декабря 2014 года

Пт, Ноябрь 28, 2014 - 12:58

На данной неделе наступит календарная зима в северном полушарии Земли и лето - в южном. 2 декабря произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,77)..

Portrait of NGC 281

Пт, Ноябрь 28, 2014 - 9:30

Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow.

Galileo s Europa Remastered

Чт, Ноябрь 27, 2014 - 9:30

Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely hides a deep, global ocean. Galileo...

Io and Callisto Mutual Event

Ср, Ноябрь 26, 2014 - 8:30

A 24 minute sequence from top to bottom, this intriguing series of telescopic frames tracks the occultation of Io by Callisto, two of Jupiter's Galilean moons, from San Pietro Polesine, Italy, planet Earth. A challenging observational..

The Creature from the Red Lagoon

Вт, Ноябрь 25, 2014 - 9:30

What creature lurks near the red Lagoon nebula? Mars. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph has captured the red planet passing below two notable nebulae -- cataloged by the 18th century cosmic registrar Charles Messier as M8 and M20.

Soaring over Titan

Пн, Ноябрь 24, 2014 - 9:30

What would it look like to fly over Titan? Radar images from NASA's robotic Cassini satellite in orbit around Saturn have been digitally compiled to simulate such a flight. Cassini has swooped past Saturn's cloudiest moon several..