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Space Shuttle Rising

Вс, Май 24, 2015 - 10:30

What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. Sometimes, if you looked out the window of an airplane at just the right place and time, you could have seen something very unusual -- a space shuttle launching to orbit.

NGC 7822 in Cepheus

Сб, Май 23, 2015 - 8:30

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

Астрономическая неделя с 25 по 31 мая 2015 года

Пт, Май 22, 2015 - 17:31

На данной неделе Меркурий пройдет в полутора градусах южнее Марса и достигнет нижнего соединения с Солнцем. Кроме этого, комета..

A Dark and Dusty Sky

Пт, Май 22, 2015 - 8:30

In the dusty sky toward the constellation Taurus and the Orion Arm of our Milky Way Galaxy, this broad mosaic follows dark and faint reflection nebulae along the region's fertile molecular cloud.

NGC 6240: Merging Galaxies

Чт, Май 21, 2015 - 8:30

NGC 6240 offers a rare, nearby glimpse of a cosmic catastrophe in its final throes. The titanic galaxy-galaxy collision takes place a mere 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The merging galaxies spew distorted..

A Cliff Looming on Comet 67P

Ср, Май 20, 2015 - 9:30

What that looming behind this gravel-strewn hill on Comet ChuryumovGerasimenko? A jagged cliff. The unusual double-lobed nucleus of Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko lends itself to unusual and dramatic vistas, another of which has been..

Журнал “Небосвод” за июнь 2015 года

Ср, Май 20, 2015 - 1:09

Очередной выпуск бесплатного электронно-печатного издания для любителей астрономии Небосвод....

Шаровое звёздное скопление 47 Тукана

Вт, Май 19, 2015 - 11:30

Шаровое звёздное скопление 47 Тукана — сокровище южного неба. Также известное под именем NGC 104, оно бороздит просторы гало нашего..

Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc

Вт, Май 19, 2015 - 10:30

Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel box of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with over 150 other globular star clusters.

Auroras and Star Trails over Iceland

Пн, Май 18, 2015 - 8:31

It was one of the quietest nights of aurora in weeks. Even so, in northern- Iceland during last November, faint auroras lit up the sky every clear night. The featured 360-degree panorama is the digital fusion of four wide-angle..

NGC 2440: Pearl of a New White Dwarf

Вс, Май 17, 2015 - 8:30

Like a pearl, a white dwarf star shines best after being freed from its shell. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a mollusk and its discarded hull would shine prettiest of all!

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

Сб, Май 16, 2015 - 7:31

This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would..