Anemichnaya galaktika NGC 4921
25.11.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kak daleko nahoditsya spiral'naya galaktika NGC 4921? V nastoyashee vremya schitaetsya, chto rasstoyanie do nee sostavlyaet okolo 310 millionov svetovyh let. Esli udastsya poluchit' bolee tochnuyu ocenku, to, sopostaviv ee s izvestnoi skorost'yu udaleniya etoi galaktiki, mozhno budet luchshe prokalibrovat' svyaz' skorosti rasshireniya s rasstoyaniem dlya vsei nablyudaemoi Vselennoi. Chtoby osushestvit' eto, Kosmicheskim teleskopom im.

Dzhety v NGC 1097
14.11.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Zagadochnaya spiral'naya galaktika NGC 1097 siyaet v 45 millionah svetovyh let ot nas v himicheskom yuzhnom sozvezdii Pech'. Na etom cvetnom portrete ee golubye spiral'nye rukava ispeshreny rozovymi oblastyami zvezdoobrazovaniya. Kazhetsya, budto eti rukava obernulis' vokrug malen'koi galaktiki-sputnika, raspolozhennoi chut' nizhe i levee, primerno v 40 000 svetovyh let ot yarkogo yadra bol'shoi galaktiki.