Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

APOD: 2024 August 18 B A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
17.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the featured time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was taken every 24 seconds.

Sky Full of SARs
16.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

On August 11 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched from a rotating planet. With a small satellite on board its mission was dubbed A Sky Full of SARs (Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites), departing for low Earth orbit from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's north island.

Meteor Borealis
15.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

A single exposure made with a camera pointed almost due north on August 12 recorded this bright Perseid meteor in the night sky west of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The meteor's incandescent trace is fleeting.

Late Night Vallentuna
14.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Bright Mars and even brighter Jupiter are in close conjunction just above the pine trees in this post-midnight skyscape from Vallentuna, Sweden. Taken on August 12 during a geomagnetic storm, the snapshot records the glow of aurora borealis or northern lights, beaming from the left side of the frame.

APOD: 2024 August 14 B Meteors and Aurora over Germany
13.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the dark night as small bits cast off from Comet Swift-Tuttle came crashing into the Earth's atmosphere.

APOD: 2024 August 13 B Giant Jet from the International Space Station
12.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What's that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth's edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue.

Perseidy nad Stounhendzhem
11.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Chto proishodit v nebe nad Stounhendzhem? Meteornyi potok – tochnee, meteornyi potok Perseidy. Neskol'ko nochei nazad, posle togo kak nebo potemnelo, bylo polucheno mnozhestvo izobrazhenii meteorov iz potoka Perseidy, iz kotoryh byla smontirovana eta kartinka. Vse meteory letyat po pryamym traektoriyam, odnako iz sledy vyglyadyat nemnogo iskrivlennymi shirokougol'nym ob'ektivom kamery.

APOD: 2024 August 11 B Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
10.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow this comet's orbit as they slowly disperse. The featured animation depicts the entire meteoroid stream as it orbits our Sun.

Svet, temnota i pyl' v Trehrazdel'noi tumannosti
9.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Prekrasnaya Trehrazdel'naya tumannost' (M20) nahoditsya na rasstoyanii okolo 5 tysyach svetovyh let v bogatom tumannostyami sozvezdii Strel'ca. V etoi tumannosti, nahodyasheisya v ploskosti Galaktiki, raspolozhena oblast' zvezdoobrazovaniya. V Trehrazdel'noi tumannosti mozhno naiti tri osnovnye...

A Perseid Below
8.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan...