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M64: The Black Eye Galaxy

Чт, Июнь 18, 2015 - 8:30

This big, bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its heavy-lidded appearance in telescopic views. M64 is about 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise..

M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster

Ср, Июнь 17, 2015 - 8:30

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as dusty as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even..

APOD is 20 Years Old Today

Вт, Июнь 16, 2015 - 7:30

Welcome to the vicennial year of the Astronomy Picture of the Day! Perhaps a source of web consistency for some, APOD is still here. As during each of the 20 years of selecting images...

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..