Новости из категории: astronet

APOD: 2023 March 14 Б W5: The Soul Nebula

Вт, Март 14, 2023 - 7:30

Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, whom Greek mythology credits as the vain wife..

APOD: 2023 March 13 Б Rainbow Tree

Пн, Март 13, 2023 - 6:30

What lies at the end of a rainbow? Something different for everyone. For the photographer taking this picture, for example, one end of the rainbow ended at a tree. Others nearby, though, would likely see the rainbow end somewhere..

APOD: 2023 March 12 Б Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters

Вс, Март 12, 2023 - 8:30

What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon and took images of unprecedented detail.

3D Bennu

Сб, Март 11, 2023 - 8:30

Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 101955 Bennu. Shaped like a spinning toy top with boulders littering its rough surface, the tiny Solar System world is about one Empire State Building (less than 500 meters) across.

Астрономическая неделя с 13 по 19 марта 2023 года

Пт, Март 10, 2023 - 13:30

На данной неделе 13 марта произойдет покрытие Луной (Ф= 0,63-) звезды сигма Скорпиона при видимости в Сибири. 14 марта наступит максимум..

Orion and the Running Man

Пт, Март 10, 2023 - 7:30

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint celestial smudge to the naked-eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp telescopic image, recorded on a cold January..

DART vs Dimorphos

Чт, Март 09, 2023 - 8:30

On the first planetary defense test mission from planet Earth, the DART spacecraft captured this close-up on 26 September 2022, three seconds before slamming into the surface of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. The spacecraft's outline with two..

APOD: 2023 March 8 Б Artificial Night Sky Brightness

Ср, Март 08, 2023 - 8:30

Where have all the dim stars gone? From many places on the Earth including major cities, the night sky has been reduced from a fascinating display of thousands of stars to a diffuse glow through which only a few stars are visible.

APOD: 2023 March 7 Б Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud

Вт, Март 07, 2023 - 7:30

Is this a spiral galaxy? No. Actually, it is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the largest satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The LMC is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy because of its normally chaotic..

APOD: 2023 March 6 Б Jupiter and Venus from Earth

Пн, Март 06, 2023 - 7:30

It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them.

APOD: 2023 March 5 Б Jupiter and Venus over Italy

Вс, Март 05, 2023 - 8:30

What are those two bright spots? Planets. A few days ago, the two brightest planets in the night sky passed within a single degree of each other in what is termed a conjunction. Visible just after sunset in much of the world, the..

10 Days of Venus and Jupiter

Сб, Март 04, 2023 - 7:30

Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately. The impending close conjunction of the two brightest planets visible in clear evening skies has been hard to miss. With Jupiter at the top, starting...