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Leaving Vesta

Ср, Сентябрь 19, 2012 - 7:30

Next stop: Ceres. Last week the robotic Dawn spacecraft ended its year-long mission to asteroid Vesta, becoming the first spacecraft ever to visit this far off world located between Mars and Jupiter, in the Solar System's main asteroid belt.

2012: Праздник Осеннего Равноденствия в ГАИШ

Вт, Сентябрь 18, 2012 - 23:16

Традиционный праздник Осеннего Равноденствия в этом году будет отмечаться в ГАИШ 21 сентября, начало в 18 часов. Клятва..

Журнал “Небосвод” за сентябрь 2012 года

Вт, Сентябрь 18, 2012 - 22:52

В очередном номере журнала рассказывается о солнечных затмениях 20 века в России, о комете Галлея, о новом открытии в..

Orbiting Astronaut Self Portrait

Вт, Сентябрь 18, 2012 - 7:30

Is it art? Earlier this month, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly..

A Solar Filament Erupts

Пн, Сентябрь 17, 2012 - 8:30

What's happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual -- it just threw a filament. At the end of last month, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME).

Saturn: Bright Tethys and Ancient Rings

Вс, Сентябрь 16, 2012 - 17:30

How old are Saturn's rings? No one is quite sure. One possibility is that the rings formed relatively recently in our Solar System's history, perhaps only about 100 million years ago when a moon-sized object broke up near Saturn.

Нарисованная туманность Кольцо

Сб, Сентябрь 15, 2012 - 8:30

Простая симметричная планетарная туманность Кольцо (M57), хорошо известная наблюдателям, находится на расстоянии 2 000 световых лет.

Ring Nebula Drawn

Сб, Сентябрь 15, 2012 - 7:30

A planetary nebula with a simple symmetry familiar to telescopic sky gazers, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. Hints of changing colors and subtle details are brought out in this..

Астрономическая неделя с 17 по 23 сентября 2012 года

Пт, Сентябрь 14, 2012 - 23:05

На данной неделе максимума блеска достигнет переменная звезда R Орла (6m), произойдет покрытие Луной Марса (в России не видно) и..

Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647

Пт, Сентябрь 14, 2012 - 8:30

Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd couple in this sharp cosmic portrait from the Hubble Space Telescope. But they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the eastern side of..

Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647

Пт, Сентябрь 14, 2012 - 7:30

Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd couple in this sharp cosmic portrait from the Hubble Space Telescope. But they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the eastern side of..

Cocoon Nebula Wide Field

Чт, Сентябрь 13, 2012 - 8:30

In this crowded starfield covering over 2 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. A compact star forming region, the cosmic Cocoon punctuates a long trail of obscuring interstellar dust..