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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..

A Prominence on the Sun

Сб, Сентябрь 19, 2015 - 7:30

Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 сентября 2015 года

Пт, Сентябрь 18, 2015 - 13:17

На данной неделе продолжается благоприятное время для наблюдений звездного неба. Относительно теплая погода сентября дает..

A Plutonian Landscape

Пт, Сентябрь 18, 2015 - 7:30

This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon of a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the..

Pickering s Triangle in the Veil

Чт, Сентябрь 17, 2015 - 8:30

Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of..

Вечерние наблюдения в ГАИШ 2015

Чт, Сентябрь 17, 2015 - 0:38

Уважаемые друзья! В качестве одного из мероприятий Фестиваля науки-2015 Государственный Астрономический..

Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres

Ср, Сентябрь 16, 2015 - 7:30

What created these bright spots on Ceres? The spots were first noted as the robotic Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, in February, with the expectation that the mystery would soon be solved in..