Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

Apollo 17 s Moonship
27.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module America shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit.

3I/ATLAS Flyby
26.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Attention grabbing interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS made its not-so-close flyby of our fair planet on December 19 at a distance of 1.8 astronomical units. That's about 900 light-seconds. This deep exposure captures the comet...

Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree
25.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen...

APOD: 2025 December 24 B Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe
24.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe. Although extremely faint, LRDs are now frequently identified in deep observations made for other purposes.

APOD: 2025 December 23 B Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy
23.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What's happening in the sky? Lightning. The most commonly seen type of lightning involves flashes of bright white light between clouds. Over the past 50 years, though, other types of upper-atmospheric lightning have been confirmed, including tentacled red sprites and ringed ELVES.

APOD: 2025 December 22 B Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
22.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere.

Solnechnoe tatu v solncestoyanie
20.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Angliiskoe slovo "solstice" (solncestoyanie) sostavleno iz latinskih slov "solnce" i "stoyanie". V dni okolo solncestoyaniya ezhegodnoe peremeshenie Solnca s severa na yug na nebe planety Zemlya zamedlyaetsya, ostanavlivaetsya i menyaet napravlenie. V eto vremya dnevnoi put' Solnca po nebu pochti ne izmenyaetsya.

Dlinnye teni Kavkazskih gor
19.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kogda na Lune nastupaet faza pervoi chetverti, Solnce voshodit nad Kavkazskimi gorami na lunnoi poverhnosti. Lunnye gory otbrasyvayut effektnye ostrokonechnye teni, zapechatlennye na etom teleskopicheskom izobrazhenii lunnogo terminatora, ili granicy mezhdu dnem i noch'yu. Vysota lunnyh Kavkazskih gor, nazvannyh v chest' zemnyh gor, dostigaet 6 kilometrov.

Yupiter i meteory iz potoka Geminidy
18.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Yupiter – dominiruyushii v Solnechnoi sisteme gazovyi gigant – samoe yarkoe nebesnoe svetilo v centre etogo nochnogo peizazha. Kartinka smontirovana iz 40 snimkov s meteorami, vybrannyh iz okolo 500 ekspozicii, sdelannyh iz Alentezhu v Portugalii na planete Zemlya v nochi 13 i 14 dekabrya, kogda ezhegodnyi meteornyi potok Geminidy dostig maksimuma.

W5: tumannost' Dusha
17.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Zvezdy formiruyutsya v dushe korolevy Efiopii. Tochnee govorya, bol'shaya oblast' zvezdoobrazovaniya, nazvannaya tumannost'yu Dusha, nahoditsya v napravlenii na sozvezdie Kassiopei, kotoraya, soglasno grecheskoi mifologii, byla tsheslavnoi zhenoi korolya, kogda-to pravivshego zemlyami v verhov'yah Nila.