Bol'shoe Magellanovo Oblako
19.12.2008 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

U portugal'skogo moreplavatelya 16-go veka Fernando Magellana i ego komandy, sovershivshih pervoe krugosvetnoe plavanie, bylo mnogo vremeni dlya izucheniya yuzhnogo neba. V rezul'tate dva pohozhih na oblaka ob'ekta, kotorye legko uvidet' nablyudatelyam v yuzhnom polusharii, stali izvestny pod nazvaniem Magellanovy Oblaka.

Astronomicheskaya nedelya s 22 po 28 dekabrya 2008 goda
19.12.2008 17:56 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Dannaya nedelya proidet bez znachimyh astronomicheskih yavlenii. Tem ne menee, priblizhayusheesya novolunie dast lyubitelyam astronomii vozmozhnost' nablyudat' samye slabye ob'ekty zvezdnogo neba na vsem protyazhenii samyh dlinnyh nochei goda. Nevooruzhennym glazom mozhno budet nablyudat' ne tol'ko yarkie planety, no i Uran....