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Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle
1.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on June 30 2024. Now on a return voyage...

APOD: 2024 July 31 B Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks
31.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What is creating these unusual spots? Light-colored spots on Martian rocks, each surrounded by a dark border, were discovered earlier this month by NASA's Perseverance Rover currently exploring Mars. Dubbed leopard spots because...

Arp 142: vzaimodeistvuyushie galaktiki ot teleskopa "Dzheims Vebb"
30.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Nekotorym eto kazhetsya pohozhim na pingvina. Odnako dlya lyudei, izuchayushih Vselennuyu, eto – interesnyi primer vzaimodeistviya dvuh bol'shih galaktik. Vsego lish' neskol'ko soten millionov let nazad NGC 2936, verhnyaya iz dvuh bol'shih galaktik na kartinke, veroyatno, byla obychnoi spiral'noi galaktikoi: ona vrashalas', sozdavala zvezdy, v obshem, zanimalas' svoimi delami.

Mlechnyi Put' nad Uluru
29.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Chto proishodit nad Uluru? Uluru – ob'ekt Vsemirnogo naslediya YuNESKO – udivitel'naya gora vysotoi v 350 metrov v central'noi Avstralii, vozvyshayushayasya nad okruzhayushei ravninoi. Uluru sostoit iz peschanika, gora medlenno formirovalas' v techenie poslednih 300 millionov let, kogda razrushalis' bolee myagkie porody. V raione Uluru lyudi obitayut bolee 22 tysyach let.

APOD: 2024 July 28 B Sun Dance
28.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Sometimes, the surface of our Sun seems to dance. In the middle of 2012, for example, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressive prominence that seemed to perform a running dive roll like an acrobatic dancer.

Saturn at the Moon s Edge
27.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations...

Facing NGC 6946
26.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 20 million light-years away, behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation Cepheus.

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
25.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers.

APOD: 2024 July 24 B Exaggerated Moon
24.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Our Moon doesn't really have craters this big. Earth's Moon, Luna, also doesn't naturally show this spikey texture, and its colors are more subtle. But this digital creation is based on reality.

APOD: 2024 July 23 B The Crab Nebula from Visible to X Ray
23.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What powers the Crab Nebula? A city-sized magnetized neutron star spinning around 30 times a second. Known as the Crab Pulsar, it is the bright spot in the center of the gaseous swirl at the nebula's core.