Asteroid 2005 YU55 proletaet mimo Zemli
9.11.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Vchera mimo Zemli, ne predstavlyaya nikakoi opasnosti, proletel asteroid 2005 YU55. Razmer etoi kosmicheskoi skaly ocenivaetsya v 400 metrov, odnako orbita asteroida prohodit vnutri orbity Luny. Konechno, nebol'shie kosmicheskie kamni proletayut mimo Zemli chasto...

RCW 86: istoricheskii ostatok sverhnovoi
10.11.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

V 185 godu nashei ery kitaiskie astronomy zafiksirovali poyavlenie novoi zvezdy v asterizme Nanmen — pole na nebe, vklyuchayushem v sebya, v tom chisle, zvezdy α i β sovremennogo sozvezdiya Centavra. Ta novaya zvezda byla vidna v techenie neskol'kih mesyacev. Teper' schitaetsya, chto eto samaya pervaya iz zadokumentirovannyh sverhnovyh.