Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

APOD: 2025 August 30 B A Two Percent Moon
30.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

A young crescent moon can be hard to see. That's because when the Moon shows it's crescent phase (young or old) it can never be far from the Sun in planet Earth's sky.

APOD: 2025 August 29 B A Dark Veil in Ophiuchus
29.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

The diffuse hydrogen-alpha glow of emission region Sh2-27 fills this cosmic scene. The field of view spans nearly 3 degrees across the nebula-rich constellation Ophiuchus toward the central Milky Way. A Dark Veil...

APOD: 2025 August 28 B Galaxies, Stars, and Dust
28.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

This well-composed telescopic field of view covers over a Full Moon on the sky toward the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Of course the brighter stars show diffraction spikes, the commonly seen effect of internal supports in reflecting telescopes, and lie well within our own Milky Way galaxy.

APOD: 2025 August 27 B WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
27.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

That yellow spot -- what is it? It's a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, some 4.5 billion years ago.

Meteor i zvezdnoe skoplenie
25.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Inogda nebo udivlyaet vas. Chtoby uvidet' bol'she zvezd i tuskluyu tumannost' v zvezdnom skoplenii Pleyady (M45), ispol'zuyut dlinnye ekspozicii. Na etih ekspoziciyah inogda poyavlyayutsya menee interesnye ob'ekty, kotorye ne sobiralis' zapechatlet' i ot kotoryh izbavlyayutsya pri obrabotke.

Vrashayushiisya pul'sar v Krabovidnoi tumannosti
24.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

V centre Krabovidnoi tumannosti nahoditsya neitronnaya zvezda razmerom s gorod s sil'nym magnitnym polem, kotoraya vrashaetsya vokrug svoei osi 30 raz za sekundu. Eto – pul'sar v Krabe – yarkoe pyatnyshko v seredine gazovogo vihrya v centre tumannosti.

Rybalka na Lunu
23.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kak velika nasha Luna? Esli sravnivat' s drugimi sputnikami Solnechnoi sistemy, ona nahoditsya na pyatom meste po razmeru, ustupaya sputniku Yupitera Ganimedu, sputniku Saturna Titanu i sputnikami Yupitera Kallisto i Io. Prodolzhaya spisok, Luna bol'she sputnika Yupitera Evropy i sputnika Neptuna Tritona. Luna bol'she karlikovyh planet Pluton i Eris.

Rasskaz o dvuh tumannostyah
22.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Na etom cvetnom teleskopicheskom izobrazhenii uchastka neba v "muzykal'nom" severnom sozvezdii Lira vidny tuskloe vneshnee galo i yarkaya kol'ceobraznaya central'naya oblast' M57, izvestnoi kak tumannost' Kol'co. Dlya sovremennyh astronomov M57 – horosho izvestnaya planetarnaya tumannost'. Razmer central'nogo kol'ca – okolo odnogo svetovogo goda.

Bol'shinstvo meteorov – Perseidy
21.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Na kartinke zapechatleno predrassvetnoe nebo rannim utrom 12 avgusta. Bol'shinstvo sledov ostavili meteory iz potoka Perseidy, i vy legko mozhete naiti ih. Sledy etih meteorov kazhutsya shodyashimisya v tochke radianta ezhegodnogo meteornogo potoka, raspolozhennoi v sozvezdii Perseya i nahodyasheisya za verhnim kraem kartinki.

Perseidy nad Derdl-dor
20.08.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Chto eto za izognutye dugi na nebe? Meteory, a tochnee, meteory iz potoka Perseidy etogo goda. V techenie neskol'kih proshedshih nedel', kogda nebo temnelo, bylo polucheno mnozhestvo snimkov meteorov iz potoka Perseidy, iz kotoryh byla smontirovana odna kartinka. Hotya traektorii vseh meteorov pryamye, na kartinke oni vyglyadyat izognutymi iz-za iskazhenii, vnosimyh shirokougol'nym ob'ektivom.