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Серебристые облака

Пт, Июнь 22, 2012 - 14:38

Светлые полупрозрачные облака, которые иногда видны на фоне темного неба летней ночью в средних и высоких широтах. Международное..

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf galaxy IC 2574 shows clear evidence..

WR 134 Ring Nebula

Чт, Июнь 21, 2012 - 18:30

Made with narrow and broad band filters, this colorful cosmic snap shot covers a field of view about the size of the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by..

Venus Transits the Midnight Sun

Ср, Июнь 20, 2012 - 7:30

Today's solstice, the astronomical beginning of summer in the north, is at 23:09 UT when the Sun reaches the northernmost declination in its yearly trek through planet Earth's sky. While most...

NuSTAR XRay Telescope Launched

Вт, Июнь 19, 2012 - 8:30

What's left after a star explodes? To help find out, NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite into Earth orbit last week. NuSTAR's ability to focus hard X-rays emitted from...

Milky Way Above Easter Island

Пн, Июнь 18, 2012 - 8:30

Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as..

Jupiters Rings Revealed

Вс, Июнь 17, 2012 - 8:30

Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that..

APOD Turns 17

Сб, Июнь 16, 2012 - 8:30

The first APOD appeared seventeen years ago today, on 1995 June 16. Although garnering only 14 page views on that day, we are proud to estimate that APOD has now served over one billion space-related images over the last 1.7 decades.

Астрономическая неделя с 18 по 24 июня 2012 года

Пт, Июнь 15, 2012 - 19:05

На данной неделе 21 июня в 3 часа 05 минут по московскому времени наступит летнее солнцестояние....

M65 and M66

Пт, Июнь 15, 2012 - 8:30

Nearby and bright, spiral galaxies M65 (top) and M66 stand out in this engaging cosmic snapshot. The pair are just 35 million light-years distant and around 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own spiral Milky Way.

M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Чт, Июнь 14, 2012 - 7:30

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in..

The Spectrum of the Optical Transient in NGC 5775

Ср, Июнь 13, 2012 - 9:31

On 2012 April 25, we acquired spectra and images of NGC 5775 OT PSN J14535395+0334049, classified as a calcium transient similar to NGC 300 OT and SN 2008S in NGC 6496. The Russian 6-m telescope and the SCORPIO focal reducer were used. The