NGC 5965 i NGC 5963 v Drakone
16.02.2012 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Eti dve spiral'nye galaktiki obrazuyut fotogenichnuyu paru, kotoruyu mozhno naiti v predelah severnogo sozvezdiya Drakona. Galaktiki rezko otlichayutsya cvetom i orientaciei. NGC 5965 vidna pochti tochno s rebra, v ee okraske preobladayut zheltye ottenki, a golubovataya NGC 5963 obrashena k nam licom.

Zapadnaya stena kratera Aristarh
17.02.2012 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Plato Aristarha obrazovano shirokimi zastyvshimi potokami lavy v Lunnom Okeane Bur'. Na yugo-vostoke plato nahoditsya vpechatlyayushii krater Aristarh. Eto udarnyi krater shirinoi 40 kilometrov i glubinoi 3 kilometra. Posmotrite na etu zamechatel'nuyu panoramu, na kotoroi izobrazhena 25-kilometrovaya zapadnaya stena kratera.