Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)
Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival
18.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
For some, these subtle bands of light and shadow stretched across the sky as the Sun set on July 11. Known as anticrepuscular rays, the bands are formed as a large cloud bank near the western horizon cast long shadows through the atmosphere at sunset.
Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
17.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy.
APOD: 2024 July 17 B Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky
16.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
When Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, swings his blacksmith's hammer, the sky is lit on fire. A recent eruption of Chile's Villarrica volcano shows the delicate interplay between this fire -- actually...
APOD: 2024 July 16 B Cometary Globules
15.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
What are these unusual interstellar structures? Bright-rimmed, flowing shapes gather near the center of this rich starfield toward the borders of the nautical southern constellations Pupis and Vela. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, the grouping of light-year sized cometary globules is about 1300 light-years distant.
APOD: 2024 July 15 B The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
14.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco).
APOD: 2024 July 14 B Meteor Misses Galaxy
13.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away -- in this instance 3 million light years as opposed to only about 0.0003 light seconds.
Solar System Family Portrait
12.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
In 1990, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back to make this first ever Solar System family portrait. The complete portrait is a 60 frame mosaic made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane.
Dzhons-Emberson-1
11.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Planetarnaya tumannost' Dzhons-Emberson-1 – sbroshennaya obolochka umirayushei zvezdy, pohozhei na Solnce. Ona nahoditsya na rasstoyanii okolo 1600 svetovyh let ot Zemli, v sozvezdii Rysi. Rasshiryayushiisya ostatok atmosfery umirayushei zvezdy, dostigshii razmera okolo 4 svetovyh let, byl vybroshen v mezhzvezdnoe prostranstvo, kogda u zvezdy posle milliardov let evolyucii zakonchilsya zapas vodoroda i geliya v yadre.
Sharovoe skoplenie ω Centavra
10.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Sharovoe zvezdnoe skoplenie ω Centavra, takzhe izvestnoe kak NGC 5139, udaleno ot nas na 15 tysyach svetovyh let. V etom skoplenii v oblasti s diametrom okolo 150 svetovyh let nahoditsya primerno 10 millionov zvezd, kazhdaya iz kotoryh gorazdo starshe Solnca.
Triplet v Strel'ce
9.07.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Sovershaya s pomosh'yu teleskopa ekskursiyu po sozvezdiyu Strel'ca, vy obyazatel'no uvidite eti tri yarkie tumannosti i bogatuyu zvezdami central'nuyu chast' Mlechnogo Puti. "Kosmicheskii turist" vosemnadcatogo veka Sharl' Mess'e zanes v katalog dve iz nih: M8 – bol'shuyu tumannost' vyshe centra, i raznocvetnuyu M20 okolo nizhnego levogo ugla kartinki.