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Pozdnyaya noch' v Vallentune
14.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Yarkii Mars i eshe bolee yarkii Yupiter zapechatleny nad sosnami po vremya blizkogo soedineniya na etom peizazhe neba nad Vallentunoi v Shvecii posle polunochi. Snimok sdelan 12 avgusta vo vremya geomagnitnoi buri, na nem sleva vidno severnoe siyanie. V etu noch' na nebe planety Zemlya nablyudalsya meteornyi potok Perseidy.
Meteory i severnoe siyanie nad Germaniei
13.08.2024 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
Eto byla neobychnaya noch'. Vo-pervyh, v noch' s 11 na 12 avgusta nablyudalsya maksimum ezhegodnogo meteornogo potoka Perseidy. Meteory chasto ostavlyali svoi sledy na temnom nebe, kogda peschinki iz komety Svifta-Tuttlya vletali v atmosferu Zemli. Odnako gorazdo bolee neobychnym, po kraine mere dlya central'noi Germanii, stalo fioletovoe svechenie nochnogo neba.
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...
Periodicheskaya kometa Svifta-Tuttlya
7.08.2024 | 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
6.08.2024 | 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
5.08.2024 | 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...