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APOD: 2024 September 10 Б Horsehead and Orion Nebulas

Вт, Сентябрь 10, 2024 - 8:30

The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the above stunning mosaic.

APOD: 2024 September 9 Б Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos

Пн, Сентябрь 09, 2024 - 7:30

If you could fly over Mars, what might you see? The featured image shows exactly this in the form of a Mars Express vista captured over a particularly interesting region on Mars in July. The picture's most famous feature is Olympus..

APOD: 2024 September 8 Б M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

Вс, Сентябрь 08, 2024 - 8:30

The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. Even at some two and a half million light-years distant, this immense spiral galaxy -- spanning over 200,000 light years -- is visible, although..

Астрономическая неделя с 9 по 15 сентября 2024 года

Сб, Сентябрь 07, 2024 - 11:10

На данной неделе 9 сентября наступит максимум действия метеорного потока Сентябрьские эпсилон-Персеиды (ZHR= 5), а Меркурий пройдет в..

Small Moon Deimos

Сб, Сентябрь 07, 2024 - 8:30

Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, named for the figures in Greek mythology Fear and Panic. Detailed surface views of smaller moon Deimos are shown in both these panels. The images were taken in 2009, by the HiRISE camera on..

Ringed Ice Giant Neptune

Пт, Сентябрь 06, 2024 - 8:30

Ringed ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The dim and distant world is the farthest planet from the Sun, about 30 times farther away than planet Earth.

NGC 247 and Friends

Чт, Сентябрь 05, 2024 - 0:30

About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million light-years distant it is nearby though. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from our perspective, it dominates this..

APOD: 2024 September 4 Б NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula

Ср, Сентябрь 04, 2024 - 8:30

Can you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star.

APOD: 2024 September 3 Б Quarter Moon and Sister Stars

Вт, Сентябрь 03, 2024 - 8:30

Nine days ago, two quite different sky icons were imaged rising together. Specifically, Earth's Moon shared the eastern sky with the sister stars of the Pleiades cluster, as viewed from Alberta, Canada. Astronomical...

APOD: 2024 September 2 Б A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun

Пн, Сентябрь 02, 2024 - 8:30

Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles,..

APOD: 2024 September 1 Б The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

Вс, Сентябрь 01, 2024 - 8:30

Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent phase with most of its surface visible by reflected Earthlight, known as Da..