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Rosetta Approaches Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko

Пн, Август 11, 2014 - 8:30

What does it look like to approach a comet? Early this month humanity received a new rendition as the robotic Rosetta spacecraft went right up to -- and began orbiting -- the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

A Perseid Below

Вс, Август 10, 2014 - 7:30

Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan...

Ночное свечение

Сб, Август 09, 2014 - 8:30

Что светит ночью? Едва видимое глазом редкое электрическое голубое свечение распространилось вдоль берега озера Виктория 16..

A Luminous Night

Сб, Август 09, 2014 - 7:30

What shines in the world at night? Just visible to the eye, a rare electric blue glow spread along the shores of Victoria Lake on January 16, 2013. Against reflections of a light near the horizon, this digitally stacked long exposure

Астрономическая неделя с 11 по 17 августа 2014 года

Пт, Август 08, 2014 - 12:50

На данной неделе метеорный поток Персеиды достигнет максимума действия (яркая Луна помешает наблюдениям), произойдет покрытие Луной..

Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744

Пт, Август 08, 2014 - 7:30

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo. We see the disk of the nearby island universe..

Свидание Розетты

Чт, Август 07, 2014 - 8:30

3-го августа узкоугольная камера космического аппарата Розетта получила это замечательное изображение ядра кометы

Rosetta s Rendezvous

Чт, Август 07, 2014 - 7:30

On August 3rd, the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle camera captured this stunning image of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. After 10 years and 6.5 billion kilometers of travel along gravity assist trajectories looping through..

Saturn s Swirling Cloudscape

Ср, Август 06, 2014 - 7:30

Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results..

Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth

Вт, Август 05, 2014 - 8:30

No place on Earth was safe. Four billion years ago, during the Hadean eon, our Solar System was a dangerous shooting gallery of large and dangerous rocks and ice chunks. Recent examination of lunar...

Shadows and Plumes Across Enceladus

Пн, Август 04, 2014 - 8:30

Why does Enceladus have ice plumes? The discovery of jets spewing water vapor and ice was detected by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft in 2005. The origin of the water feeding the jets, however, remained a topic of research.