Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)
Svet, temnota i pyl' v Trehrazdel'noi tumannosti
10.08.2024 | 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
9.08.2024 | 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...
Periodicheskaya kometa Svifta-Tuttlya
8.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Kometa 109P/Svifta-Tuttlya, prinadlezhashaya k tipu komety Galleya, imeet orbital'nyi period v 133 goda i porozhdaet ezhegodnyi meteornyi potok Perseidy. Poslednii raz kometa priletala vo vnutrennyuyu oblast' Solnechnoi sistemy v 1992 godu. Togda ee nel'zya bylo legko uvidet' nevooruzhennym glazom, no ona byla dostatochno yarkoi, chtoby nablyudat' ee v binokl' ili nebol'shoi teleskop.
APOD: 2024 August 7 B Milky Way Behind Three Merlons
7.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
To some, they look like battlements, here protecting us against the center of the Milky Way. The Three Merlons, also called the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, stand tall today because they are made of dense dolomite rock which has better resisted erosion than surrounding softer rock.
APOD: 2024 August 6 B Storm Cloud Over Texas
6.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
What makes this storm cloud so colorful? First, the cloud itself is composed of millions of tiny droplets of water and ice. Its bottom is almost completely flat -- but this isn't unusual. Bottom...
APOD: 2024 August 5 B Milky Way Over Tunisia
5.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
That's no moon. On the ground, that's the Lars Homestead in Tunisia. And that's not just any galaxy. That's the central band of our own Milky Way galaxy. Last, that's not just any meteor. It is a bright fireball likely from last year's Perseids meteor shower.
Gaiya: vot poyavlyaetsya Solnce
4.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Kak by vyglyadelo vozvrashenie domoi iz-za predelov nashei Galaktiki? Avtomaticheskii kosmicheskii apparat EKA Gaiya byl sozdan dlya togo, chtoby otvetit' na bolee vazhnye voprosy, odnako poslednie poluchennye im dannye pozvolyayut pokazat' sovremennuyu kartinu mesta chelovechestva vo Vselennoi.
Glory and Fog Bow
3.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
On a road trip up Mount Uludad in Bursa province, Turkey these motorcyclists found themselves above low clouds and fog in late June. With the bright Sun directly behind them, the view down the side of the great mountain revealed a beautiful, atmospheric glory and fog bow.
Mars Passing By
2.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
As Mars wanders through Earth's night, it passes about 5 degrees south of the Pleiades star cluster in this composite astrophoto. The skyview was constructed from a series of images captured over a run of 16 consecutive clear nights beginning on July 12.
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...