Астрономическая картинка дня (APOD)

Full Moon Perseids
17.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

The annual Perseid meteor shower was near its peak on August 13. As planet Earth crossed through streams of debris left by periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle meteors rained in northern summer night skies. But even...

Stargate Milky Way
16.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

There is a huge gate of stars in the sky, and you pass through it twice a day. The stargate is actually our Milky Way Galaxy, and it is the spin of the Earth that appears to propel you through it.

A Meteor Wind over Tunisia
15.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Does the Earth ever pass through a wind of meteors? Yes, and they are frequently visible as meteor showers. Almost all meteors are sand-sized debris that escaped from a Sun-orbiting comet or asteroid, debris that continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun.

The Cygnus Wall of Star Formation
14.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

The North America nebula on the sky can do what the North America continent on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall.

4000 Exoplanets
13.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System. Known as exoplanets, this milestone was passed last month, as recorded by NASA's Exoplanet Archive. The featured video highlights these exoplanets in sound and light, starting chronologically from the first confirmed detection in 1992 and continuing into 2019.

Кратер Гершель на Мимасе
12.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

На Мимасе, маленьком спутнике Сатурна диаметром в 400 километров, находится кратер Гершель – один из самых больших ударных кратеров во всей Солнечной системе, его диаметр – 130 километров. Автоматический космический аппарат Кассини, обращавшийся вокруг Сатурна, в 2010 году получил эту замечательную фотографию маленького спутника и большого кратера.

Portrait of the Eagle Nebula
11.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, Messier 16 (M16) is also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts the colorful Hubble palette and includes cosmic sculptures made famous in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex.

Perseids and MAGIC
10.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

On August 11, 2021 a multi-mirror, 17 meter-diameter MAGIC telescope reflected this starry night sky from the Roque de los Muchachos European Northern Observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma. MAGIC stands for Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov.

Dust Clouds of the Pacman Nebula
9.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds.

Leaving Earth
8.08.2022 | Астрономическая картинка дня

What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth in 2005 on its way in toward the planet Mercury. Earth can be seen rotating in this time-lapse video, as it recedes into the distance.