Temnyi gorod
11.04.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Vy navernyaka nikogda ne videli takuyu neveroyatnuyu kartinu: yarkie zvezdy i Mlechnyi Put' vstayut nad temnymi ochertaniyami neboskrebov Puduna — raiona Shanhaya. Na etom gorodskom peizazhe, otkryvayushemsya na vostochnom beregu reki Huanpu, vydelyaetsya 470-metrovaya telebashnya Vostochnaya zhemchuzhina. Nochnoe nebo protyanulos' ot Antaresa i zvezd sozvezdiya Skorpiona sprava do Al'taira v sozvezdii Orla sleva.

Planeta Yuriya
12.04.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

V takoi zhe vesennii den', 12 aprelya 1961 goda, sovetskii kosmonavt Yurii Alekseevich Gagarin stal pervym chelovekom, otpravlennym s Zemli v kosmos. Vot chto on rasskazyval o vide s orbity: "Nebo ochen' temnoe, Zemlya golubovataya.