Астрономическая картинка дня (APOD)

APOD: 2024 August 12 Б Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
12.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year's Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame.

APOD: 2024 August 11 Б Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
11.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow this comet's orbit as they slowly disperse. The featured animation depicts the entire meteoroid stream as it orbits our Sun.

The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid
10.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate...

A Perseid Below
9.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan...

Periodic Comet Swift Tuttle
8.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

A Halley-type comet with an orbital period of about 133 years, Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle is recognized as the parent of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. The comet's last visit to the inner Solar System was in 1992.

APOD: 2024 August 7 Б Milky Way Behind Three Merlons
7.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

To some, they look like battlements, here protecting us against the center of the Milky Way. The Three Merlons, also called the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, stand tall today because they are made of dense dolomite rock which has better resisted erosion than surrounding softer rock.

APOD: 2024 August 6 Б Storm Cloud Over Texas
6.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

What makes this storm cloud so colorful? First, the cloud itself is composed of millions of tiny droplets of water and ice. Its bottom is almost completely flat -- but this isn't unusual. Bottom...

APOD: 2024 August 5 Б Milky Way Over Tunisia
5.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

That's no moon. On the ground, that's the Lars Homestead in Tunisia. And that's not just any galaxy. That's the central band of our own Milky Way galaxy. Last, that's not just any meteor. It is a bright fireball likely from last year's Perseids meteor shower.

Гайя: вот появляется Солнце
4.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

Как бы выглядело возвращение домой из-за пределов нашей Галактики? Автоматический космический аппарат ЕКА Гайя был создан для того, чтобы ответить на более важные вопросы, однако последние полученные им данные позволяют показать современную картину места человечества во Вселенной.

Glory and Fog Bow
3.08.2024 | Астрономическая картинка дня

On a road trip up Mount Uludaд in Bursa province, Turkey these motorcyclists found themselves above low clouds and fog in late June. With the bright Sun directly behind them, the view down the side of the great mountain revealed a beautiful, atmospheric glory and fog bow.