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Вид ночного неба над Сардинией A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia
20.10.2020

How many famous sky objects can you find in this image? The featured dark sky composite combines over 60 exposures spanning over 220 degrees to create a veritable menagerie of night sky wonders. Visible...


Сатурн и Юпитер над Итальянскими Альпами Saturn and Jupiter over Italian Peaks
19.10.2020

Saturn and Jupiter are getting closer. Every night that you go out and check for the next two months, these two bright planets will be even closer together on the sky. Finally, in mid-December...


Полет над Юпитером около Большого Красного Пятна A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot
18.10.2020

Are you willing to wait to see the largest and oldest known storm system in the Solar System? In the featured video, Jupiter's Great Red Spot finally makes its appearance 2 minutes and 12 seconds into the 5-minute video.


UGC 1810: взаимодействующая галактика от телескопа им.Хаббла UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble
17.10.2020

What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273.


Лебедь:  Пузырь и Полумесяц Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent
16.10.2020

These clouds of gas and dust drift through rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the high flying constellation Cygnus. Caught within the telescopic field of view are the Soap Bubble (lower left) and the Crescent Nebula (upper right).


Планетарная туманность Эйбелл 78 Planetary Nebula Abell 78
15.10.2020

Planetary nebula Abell 78 stands out in this colorful telescopic skyscape. In fact the colors of the spiky Milky Way stars depend on their surface temperatures, both cooler (yellowish) and hotter (bluish) than the Sun.


Галактики в Пегасе Galaxies in Pegasus
14.10.2020

This sharp telescopic view reveals galaxies scattered beyond the stars of the Milky Way, at the northern boundary of the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Prominent at the upper right is NGC 7331. A mere...


Разноцветные облака около ρ Змееносца The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi
13.10.2020

The many spectacular colors of the Rho Ophiuchi (oh'-fee-yu-kee) clouds highlight the many processes that occur there. The blue regions shine primarily by reflected light. Blue light from the Rho Ophiuchi star system and nearby stars reflects more efficiently off this portion of the nebula than red light.


Марс, Плеяды и Андромеда над каменными львами Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions
12.10.2020

Three very different -- and very famous -- objects were all captured in a single frame last month. On the upper left is the bright blue Pleiades, perhaps the most famous cluster of stars on the night sky. The Pleiades (M45) is about 450 light years away and easily found a few degrees from Orion.


Спуск на астероид  Бенну Descending Toward Asteroid Bennu
11.10.2020

What would it be like to land on an asteroid? Although no human has yet done it, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to attempt to touch the surface of asteroid 101955 Bennu next week.


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