Новости из категории: astronet

Aurora over New Zealand

Ср, Февраль 26, 2014 - 7:30

Sometimes the more you look at an image, the more you see. Such may be the case for this beautiful nighttime panorama taken last week in New Zealand. Visible right off, on the far left, are common clouds, slightly altered by the digital..

The Pleiades Deep and Dusty

Вт, Февраль 25, 2014 - 7:30

The well known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth's sky and can be seen from almost any northerly location with the

The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies

Пн, Февраль 24, 2014 - 8:30

What would it look like to travel to the center of an active galaxy? Most galactic centers are thought to house black holes millions of times more massive than our Sun. The spaces surrounding...

Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturns Ring Plane

Вс, Февраль 23, 2014 - 7:30

If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth..

M44: The Beehive Cluster

Сб, Февраль 22, 2014 - 8:30

A mere 600 light-years away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system. Also known as the Praesepe or the Beehive cluster its stars are young though, about 600 million years old compared to our Sun's 4.5 billion years.

Астрономическая неделя с 24 февраля по 2 марта 2014 года

Пт, Февраль 21, 2014 - 15:22

На данной неделе долгопериодическая переменная звезда R Водолея достигает максимального блеска 6,5m, Венера покроется Луной при..

The Long Jet of the Lighthouse Nebula

Пт, Февраль 21, 2014 - 8:30

The Lighthouse nebula was formed by the wind of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating, magnetized neutron star, as it speeds through the interstellar medium at over 1,000 kilometers per second. Some...

Comet Lovejoy over The Great Wall

Чт, Февраль 20, 2014 - 7:30

Fading now as it returns to the outer solar system Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) still graces planet Earth's sky, a delicate apparition in binoculars or small telescopes. The comet, a relic...

Борис Александрович Воронцов-Вельяминов (к 110-летию со дня рождения)

Ср, Февраль 19, 2014 - 17:57

Борис Александрович Воронцов-Вельяминов – один из самых известных в нашей стране и за рубежом астрофизиков, выдающийся педагог,..

A Rainbow Pileus Cloud over Zimbabwe

Ср, Февраль 19, 2014 - 8:30

Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of..

Crossing Dingo Gap on Mars

Вт, Февраль 18, 2014 - 7:30

An important threshold on Mars has now been crossed. Landing in mid-2012, the Curiosity rover is searching for clues of whether life could ever have existed on the red planet. Recent findings of Curiosity include evidence for an..