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Журнал “Небосвод” за август 2012 года

Сб, Август 18, 2012 - 11:20

В очередном номере журнала читатели смогут прочитать статьи о возрасте Мироздания, о телескопе для наблюдения Солнца, об..

Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover

Сб, Август 18, 2012 - 8:30

What does the Curiosity rover look like on Mars? To help find out, NASA engineers digitally synthesized multiple navigation camera images taken last week into what appears to be the view of a single camera. Besides clods of Martian..

Астрономическая неделя с 20 по 26 августа 2012 года

Пт, Август 17, 2012 - 19:04

На данной неделе Нептун вступит в противостояние с Солнцем на расстоянии 29 а.е. от Земли. Это самое благоприятное время для наблюдений..

Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033

Пт, Август 17, 2012 - 8:30

Magnificent island universe NGC 5033 lies some 40 million light-years away in the well-trained northern constellation Canes Venatici. This telescopic portrait reveals striking details of dust lanes winding near the galaxy's bright core

Spectroscopic Evidence for Appearance of a New Decretion Disk Around IGR J06074+2205

Чт, Август 16, 2012 - 16:17

We report on a new episode of decretion disk formation in the IGR J06074+2205 system. Our spectroscopic data permit us to measure peak separation in the double-peaked H-alpha line as 408+/-55 km/s and hence to determine the disk radius..

New Variables in Pegasus: How Can We Use WASP0 Data

Чт, Август 16, 2012 - 14:25

In the course of our work on the 80th Name-List of Variable Stars, we encountered a field in Pegasus with about 70 variable stars announced as new discoveries from the WASP0 survey. Our analysis shows that the amount of wrong..

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula

Чт, Август 16, 2012 - 8:30

NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This colorful portrait of the nebula uses narrow band image data combined in the Hubble..

A Study of the Cataclysmic Variable 1RXS J174320.1-042953

Ср, Август 15, 2012 - 11:15

We report on our photometric analysis of the poorly studied cataclysmic variable in Ophiuchus, 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (DDE 11). The results of the monitoring with the Bradford Robotic Telescope (BRT) are presented, as well as the..

Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater

Ср, Август 15, 2012 - 8:30

If you could stand on Mars, what would you see? The above image is a digitally re-colored approximation of what you might see if the above Martian landscape had occurred on Earth. Images from...

Perseid Meteors and the Milky Way

Вт, Август 14, 2012 - 8:30

Where will the next Perseid meteor appear? Sky enthusiasts who trekked outside for the Perseid meteor shower that peaked over the past few days typically had this question on their mind. Six meteors from...

A Flight Through the Universe

Пн, Август 13, 2012 - 8:30

What would it be like to fly through the universe? Possibly the best simulated video of this yet has been composed from recently-released galaxy data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Every spot in the above video is a galaxy containing..

Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision

Вс, Август 12, 2012 - 8:30

This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably the next billion or so will be quite tumultuous. Visible on the upper...