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Астрономическая неделя с 21 по 27 июля 2014 года

Пт, Июль 18, 2014 - 16:31

На данной неделе Уран перейдет к попятному движению, произойдет покрытие на 2 секунды звезды HIP 87847 (5,4m) из созвездия Змееносца..

Фестиваль «Пущинские Персеиды» (День Открытых Дверей и ночь падающих звезд на Пущинской Радиоастрон

Пт, Июль 18, 2014 - 15:36

Фестиваль «Пущинские Персеиды» (День Открытых Дверей и ночь падающих звезд на Пущинской Радиоастрон

Пт, Июль 18, 2014 - 15:36

Ou4: A Giant Squid Nebula

Пт, Июль 18, 2014 - 8:30

A mysterious, squid-like apparition, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth's sky. In the mosaic image, composed with narrowband data from the 2.5 meter Isaac Newton Telescope, it spans some 2.5 full moons toward the..

Ou4: A Giant Squid Nebula

Пт, Июль 18, 2014 - 7:30

3D Homunculus Nebula

Чт, Июль 17, 2014 - 7:30

If you're looking for something to print with that new 3D printer, try out a copy of the Homunculus Nebula. The dusty, bipolar cosmic cloud is around 1 light-year across but is slightly scaled down for printing to about 1/4..

The Moon Eclipses Saturn

Ср, Июль 16, 2014 - 8:30

What happened to half of Saturn? Nothing other than Earth's Moon getting in the way. As pictured above on the far right, Saturn is partly eclipsed by a dark edge of a Moon itself only partly illuminated by the Sun.

The Moon Eclipses Saturn

Ср, Июль 16, 2014 - 7:30

A Blue Bridge of Stars between Cluster Galaxies

Вт, Июль 15, 2014 - 7:30

Why is there a blue bridge of stars across the center of this galaxy cluster? First and foremost the cluster, designated SDSS J1531+3414, contains many large yellow elliptical galaxies. The cluster's center...

Auroras over Northern Canada

Пн, Июль 14, 2014 - 7:30

Gusting solar winds and blasts of charged particles from the Sun resulted in several rewarding nights last December for those anticipating auroras. The above image captured dramatic auroras stretching across a sky near the town of

Planetary Nebula NGC 2818 from Hubble

Вс, Июль 13, 2014 - 8:30

NGC 2818 is a beautiful planetary nebula, the gaseous shroud of a dying sun-like star. It could well offer a glimpse of the future that awaits our own Sun after spending another 5 billion years or so steadily using up hydrogen at its core,..

SN 1006 Supernova Remnant

Сб, Июль 12, 2014 - 8:30

A new star, likely the brightest supernova in recorded human history, lit up planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD. The expanding debris cloud from the stellar explosion, found in the southerly constellation of Lupus, still puts on a..