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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.

Shadows and Plumes Across Enceladus

Пн, Август 04, 2014 - 7:30

Dark Shuttle Approaching

Вс, Август 03, 2014 - 8:30

What's that approaching? Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it in early 2010 far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette. As it came even closer, the silhouette appeared to be a..

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

Сб, Август 02, 2014 - 8:30

These clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula in the sky to evoke the imagery of..