Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

APOD: 2025 December 7 B The Sun and Its Missing Colors
7.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device.

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater
6.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Fifty three years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This snapshot from another world was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the lunar valley's floor.

Bipolyarnye dzhety KX Andromedy
5.12.2025 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Dlina etih effektnyh bipolyarnyh dzhetov, vybrasyvaemyh iz peremennoi zvezdy KX Andromedy – 19 svetovyh let. Na kartinke, v centre kotoroi nahoditsya KX Andromedy, nedavno otkrytye dzhety zapechatleny isklyuchi