V rukavah M83
11.11.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Bol'shaya, yarkaya i krasivaya spiral'naya galaktika M83 udalena ot nas vsego na dvenadcat' millionov svetovyh let, ona raspolozhena okolo yugo-vostochnogo konca ochen' dlinnogo sozvezdiya Gidry. Na etom kosmicheskom portrete krupnym planom temnye polosy pyli i molodye, golubye zvezdnye skopleniya ocherchivayut horosho razvitye spiral'nye rukava, blagodarya kotorym galaktiku M83 nazyvayut "Yuzhnoi vertushkoi".

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.