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A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble

Ср, Декабрь 21, 2011 - 8:30

What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy.

NGC 253: The Sculptor Galaxy

Вт, Декабрь 20, 2011 - 8:30

NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, it is also one of the dustiest. Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 lies only about ten million light-years distant.

Астрофизический семинар АКЦ ФИАН

Вт, Декабрь 20, 2011 - 1:00

1. Новости. 2. Б.Е.Штерн. Изломы в гамма-спектрах блазаров и масштаб области ускорения и излучения. 3. М.В.Барков. Быстрая переменность..

A Geminid Meteor Over Iran

Пн, Декабрь 19, 2011 - 8:30

Some beautiful things begin as grains of sand. Locked in an oyster, a granule grows into an iridescent pearl, lustrous and lovely to behold. While hurtling through the atmosphere at 35 kilometers per second, a generous cosmic sand grain..

Hints of Higgs from the Large Hadron Collider

Вс, Декабрь 18, 2011 - 7:30

Why do objects have mass? To help find out, Europe's CERN has built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans. Since 2008, the LHC smashed protons into each other with..

Астрономическая неделя с 19 по 25 декабря 2011 года

Сб, Декабрь 17, 2011 - 18:47

На данной неделе наступит зимнее солнцестояние, а 23 декабря Меркурий достигнет утренней элонгации....

Comet Lovejoy: Sungrazing Survivor

Сб, Декабрь 17, 2011 - 7:30

Like most other sungrazing comets, Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) was not expected to survive its close encounter with the Sun. But it did. This image from a coronograph onboard the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft identifies the still inbound

Семинар НИИЯФ МГУ по космической электродинамике

Сб, Декабрь 17, 2011 - 1:00

И.Назарков. Динамика и структура магнитного поля хвоста магнитосферы Земли во время геомагнитных возмущений по материалам дипломной..

Red Moon Rising

Пт, Декабрь 16, 2011 - 7:30

This surreal, wintry scene is a composite picture recorded on December 10 as the Moon rose behind the Zagros Mountains of Iran. A total lunar eclipse was already in progress. The image combines nearly 500 successive frames taken over..

The Umbra of Earth

Чт, Декабрь 15, 2011 - 7:30

The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. For example, last Saturday the Full Moon slid across the..

A Lunar Eclipse Over an Indian Peace Pagoda

Ср, Декабрь 14, 2011 - 8:30

Our Moon turned red last week. The reason was that during December 10, a total lunar eclipse occurred. The above digitally superimposed image mosaic captured the Moon many times during the eclipse, from before the Moon entered Earth's..