Astronomicheskaya nedelya s 26 sentyabrya po 2 oktyabrya 2011 goda
23.09.2011 21:38 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Na dannoi nedele 28 sentyabrya Luna prohodit yuzhnee Merkuriya, Venery, Saturna i Spiki. 29 sentyabrya Venera sblizhaetsya s Saturnom, v etot zhe den' proizoidet verhnee soedinenie Merkuriya s Solncem, a 1 oktyabrya Mars budet nahodit'sya v 0,5 gr. yuzhnee zvezdnogo skopleniya Yasli (M44)....

"Radioastron" preodolel trudnosti
A. V. Tuncov/GAISh, Moskva, 23 sentyabrya 2011

Ispytaniya kosmicheskogo teleskopa "Radioastron" na orbite prodolzhayutsya. Za poslednii mesyac vse nauchnye pribory i sluzhebnye sistemy byli vklyucheny. Bez trudnostei ne oboshlos', no poka ih udaetsya preodolevat'.

Mlechnyi Put' nad ostrovom Mangaia
24.09.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Na temnom nebe nad zemnym raiskim ostrovom Mangaia ot Strel'ca do Kormy raskinulsya Mlechnyi Put'. Na etom prekrasnom nebesnom peizazhe, znakomom zhitelyam yuzhnogo polushariya, sleva vverhu viden Galakticheskii centr, a chut' pravee serediny kartinki raspolozhilis' dve yarkie zvezdy — α i β Centavra. Desyatikilometrovyi vulkanicheskii ostrov Mangaia — samyi yuzhnyi iz ostrovov Kuka.

Severnoe siyanie sentyabrya
23.09.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Segodnya, v 09:05 Vsemirnogo vremeni nastupilo osennee ravnodenstvie. V etot den' Solnce peresekaet nebesnyi ekvator, ustremlyayas' k yugu. V severnom polusharii Zemli nachinaetsya osen', a v yuzhnom — vesna. I vesna, i osen' prinosyat s soboi magnitnye buri, hotya svyaz' bur' s sezonami poka eshe kazhetsya zagadochnoi.