Kometa Garradda proletaet mimo 10 000 zvezd
3.09.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Po mere svoego puteshestviya po severnomu nebu kometa Garradda prodolzhaet stanovit'sya yarche. Na proshloi nedele kometa, vidimaya v binokli i otlichayushayasya zametnoi zelenovatoi komoi, proshla pochti rovno pered sharovym skopleniem M71. Kogda-to schitalos', chto skoplenie M71 rasseyannoe, odnako seichas izvestno, chto eto dovol'no staroe sharovoe skoplenie, sostoyashee iz bolee chem 10 000 zvezd.

Kak kosmicheskii apparat Gershel' vidit Mlechnyi Put'
2.09.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Osnashennaya 3.5-metrovym zerkalom (eto bol'she, chem u teleskopa imeni Habbla), kosmicheskaya observatoriya Gershel' Evropeiskogo kosmicheskogo agentstva issleduet Vselennuyu v infrakrasnyh luchah. Etot kosmicheskii apparat nazvan v chest' britanskogo astronoma nemeckogo proishozhdeniya Frederika Uil'yama Gershelya, kotoryi bolee 200 let nazad otkryl infrakrasnoe izluchenie.