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Solar System Portrait

Чт, Февраль 14, 2013 - 7:30

On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990), cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back to make this first ever family portrait of our Solar System. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made..

Infrared Orion from WISE

Ср, Февраль 13, 2013 - 8:30

The Great Nebula in Orion is a intriguing place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. But this image, an illusory-color composite of four...

GSC 1374-01131, a High-Amplitude Delta Scuti Star with an Eclipsing Component

Вт, Февраль 12, 2013 - 15:43

I present the discovery of an eclipsing component in light variations of the known High-Amplitude Delta Scuti star GSC 1374-01131 based on the Catalina Surveys publicly available data.

Reflected Aurora Over Alaska

Вт, Февраль 12, 2013 - 8:30

Some auroras can only be seen with a camera. They are called subvisual and are too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. In the above image, the green aurora were easily visible to the eye, but the red aurora only became..

Семинар НИИЯФ МГУ “Астрофизика космических лучей и физика космоса”

Вт, Февраль 12, 2013 - 0:00

О.С.Яковчук. Среднестатистические свойства геомагнитных бурь с 1932 по 2009 гг. http://www.sinp.msu.ru/science.php3?sec=sem&ref=21

Астероидно-кометная опасность – грозит ли нам “Армагеддон” ?

Пн, Февраль 11, 2013 - 21:13

С 14 февраля 2013 года начинает работу научно-популярный Лекторий «Знание-сила», совместный проект журнала «Знание-сила» и Мемориального..

N11: Star Clouds of the LMC

Пн, Февраль 11, 2013 - 8:30

Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region...

Asteroids in the Distance

Вс, Февраль 10, 2013 - 8:30

Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often Earth is struck. Many kilograms of space dust pitter to Earth daily. Larger bits appear initially as a bright meteor. Baseball-sized rocks and..

The Great Meteor Procession of 1913

Сб, Февраль 09, 2013 - 7:30

One hundred years ago today the Great Meteor Procession of 1913 occurred, a sky event described by some as "magnificent" and "entrancing" and which left people feeling "spellbound" and "privileged". Because one had to be in a right..

NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy

Сб, Февраль 09, 2013 - 2:30

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy.