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Andromeda i druz'ya
14.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Na velikolepnom vnegalakticheskom peizazhe zapechatlena galaktika Andromedy – blizhaishaya k Mlechnomu Puti bol'shaya spiral'naya galaktika. V pole zreniya teleskopa popali tri ob'ekta kataloga Mess'e – sama galaktika Andromedy, zanesennaya v katalog kak Mess'e 31 (M31), a takzhe Mess'e 32 (M32), i Mess'e 110 (M110).

Severnoe siyanie nad Floridoi
13.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Severnoe siyanie poyavilos' v nebe nad Floridoi. Na snimke, sdelannom 11 noyabrya na ostrove Shired vo Floride, zapechatlena yarkaya vspyshka meteora iz potoka Severnye Tauridy na fone zvezdnogo neba nad beregom morya. Ezhegodnyi meteornyi potok Severnye Tauridy aktiven v eto vremya goda.

Orion i Begushii chelovek
12.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Nemnogie kosmicheskie vidy proizvodyat takoe vpechatlenie, kak Bol'shaya tumannost' Oriona. Nevooruzhennym glazom ona vidna kak tuskloe pyatnyshko na nebe, a na etom chetkom cvetnom teleskopicheskom izobrazhenii blizhaishaya bol'shaya oblast' zvezdoobrazovaniya zanimaet vse pole zreniya. Svetyashiisya gaz tumannosti Oriona, izvestnoi takzhe kak M42, okruzhaet goryachie molodye zvezdy.

APOD: 2025 November 12 B A Super Lunar Corona
11.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What are those colorful rings around the Moon? A corona. Rings like this will sometimes appear when the Moon is seen through thin clouds. The effect is created by the diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly transparent cloud.

APOD: 2025 November 11 B Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
10.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Jupiter looks a bit different in ultraviolet light. To better interpret Jupiter's cloud motions and to help NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft understand the planetary context of the small fields that it sees, the Hubble Space Telescope was being directed to regularly image the entire Jovian giant.

APOD: 2025 November 10 B Micro Moon vs Super Moon
9.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What was so super about Wednesday's supermoon? Last week, a full moon occurred that appeared slightly larger and brighter than usual. The reason is that the Moon's fully illuminated phase occurred within a short time from perigee - when the Moon was its closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit.

APOD: 2025 November 9 B Road to the Galactic Center
8.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Does the road to our galaxy's center go through Monument Valley? It doesn't have to, but if your road does -- take a picture. In this case, the road is US Route 163 and iconic buttes on the Navajo National Reservation populate the horizon.

A Full Moon at Perigee
7.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

What is big, bright, and beautiful, can wear a cape made of clouds, and is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around planet Earth? A full moon at perigee of course, captured here near moonset in predawn skies on November 5 from Kayseri, Turkiye.

A Dark Seahorse in Cepheus
6.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Spanning light-years, this suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula floats in silhouette against a rich background of stars and glowing hydrogen gas. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, dark nebula is part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant.

NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe
5.11.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it the Silver Coin Galaxy for its appearance in small telescopes, or just the Sculptor Galaxy for its location within the boundaries of the southern constellation Sculptor.