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Журнал “Небосвод” за май 2012 года

Вс, Май 06, 2012 - 18:50

В очередном номере журнала читатели смогут прочитать статьи к прохождению Венеры по диску Солнца, о металлическом зеркале для..

In the Center of the Omega Nebula

Вс, Май 06, 2012 - 8:30

In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as the Omega Nebula, stars continue to form. The above image from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows exquisite detail in the famous star-forming..

Full Moonrise

Сб, Май 05, 2012 - 7:30

Rising as the Sun sets, tonight's Full Moon could be hard to miss. Remarkably, its exact full phase (May 6 03:36 UT) will occur less than two minutes after it reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in the Moon's orbit, making it the..

Календарь наблюдателя за май 2012 года

Сб, Май 05, 2012 - 2:01

Основными астрономическими событиями месяца являются: 5 мая - максимум действия метеорного потока эта-Аквариды, 13 мая - Юпитер в..

Астрономическая неделя с 7 по 13 мая 2012 года

Сб, Май 05, 2012 - 1:47

На данной неделе Юпитер вступит в соединение с Солнцем (13 мая)....

Fermi Epicyles: The Vela Pulsar s Path

Пт, Май 04, 2012 - 8:30

Exploring the cosmos at extreme energies, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits planet Earth every 95 minutes. By design, it rocks to the north and then to the south on alternate orbits in order to survey the sky with its Large Area..

M106 Close Up

Чт, Май 03, 2012 - 8:30

Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, it was added to the catalog of his..

Saturns Moon Helene in Color

Ср, Май 02, 2012 - 8:30

Although its colors may be subtle, Saturn's moon Helene is an enigma in any light. The moon was imaged in unprecedented detail last June as the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn swooped to within a single Earth diameter of the..

Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon

Вт, Май 01, 2012 - 7:30

What is all this fuss about the Higgs boson? The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may be soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN..

Астрономическая неделя c 30 апреля по 6 мая 2012 года

Пн, Апрель 30, 2012 - 19:45

На данной неделе наступит максимум действия метеорного потока эта-Аквариды....

Aurora Over RaufarhЖfn

Пн, Апрель 30, 2012 - 17:30

It was all lined up even without the colorful aurora exploding overhead. If you follow the apex line of the recently deployed monuments of Arctic Henge in RaufarhЖfn in northern Iceland from this vantage point, you will see that they point..

A Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d

Вс, Апрель 29, 2012 - 8:30

On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression.