NGC 3628: galaktika Gamburger
3.05.2017 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Net, gamburgery ne byvayut takimi bol'shimi. Na etoi kartinke – chetkoe teleskopicheskoe izobrazhenie velikolepnoi spiral'noi galaktiki NGC 3628, kotoruyu my vidim sboku. Ono pokazyvaet shirokii galakticheskii disk, peresechennyi temnymi polosami pyli. Etot zamechatel'nyi glubokii portret galaktiki napominaet astronomam o ee populyarnom nazvanii – galaktika Gamburger.

Kosmicheskoe sblizhenie nad volnami zakata
2.05.2017 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Vot on! Chut' bolee nedeli nazad kosmicheskii gruzovoi korabl' Cignus (ot latinskogo Cygnus — lebed') stal zhelannym zrelishem dlya astronavtov na bortu Mezhdunarodnoi kosmicheskoi stancii. Kosmicheskii chelnok Cignus, prinadlezhashii chastnoi kompanii Orbital ATK (Orbital...

Ostyvayushaya neitronnaya zvezda
1.05.2017 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Yarkii istochnik okolo centra kartinki – neitronnaya zvezda – isklyuchitel'no plotnyi skollapsirovavshii ostatok yadra massivnoi zvezdy. Ee okruzhaet ostatok sverhnovoi Kassiopeya A (Cas A), kotoryi nahoditsya na dostatochnom rasstoyanii ot nas – 11 tysyach svetovyh let. Svet ot sverhnovoi Cas A – vzryva, znamenuyushego smert' massivnoi zvezdy, dostig Zemli okolo 350 let nazad.