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![NGC 2359: Шлем Тора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/02/17/0001458359/thor_LHORHGOBO_final1024.preview.jpg)
16.02.2019
NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet...
![Шлем Тора: вид в телескоп CFHT](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/01/30/0001220552/thor_cfht.preview.jpg)
30.01.2007
NGC 2359 is a striking emission nebula with an impressive popular name - Thor's Helmet Sure, its suggestive winged appearance might lead some to refer to it as the "duck nebula", but if you were a nebula which name would you choose?
![Метеоры из Близнецов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/17/0001712732/GeminidMeteorsStePelle1024.preview.jpg)
17.12.2020
Taken over the course of an hour shortly after local midnight on December 13, 35 exposures were used to create this postcard from Earth. The composited night scene spans dark skies above the snowy Italian Dolomites during our fair planet's annual Geminid meteor shower.
![Шлем Тора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/06/05/0001245374/n2359Thor_mazlin900.preview.jpg)
5.06.2010
This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is actually...
![Малое Магелланово Облако](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/10/01/0001223678/smc_guisard.preview.jpg)
1.10.2007
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two celestial wonders easily visible for southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan.
![Шарплесс 308](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/04/23/0001234497/Sh308_goldman800.preview.jpg)
23.04.2009
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major and covers over 2/3 degree on the sky (compared with 1/2 degree for the Full Moon).
![NGC 2359: Шлем Тора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/11/19/0001209564/ngc2359_smith.preview.jpg)
19.11.2005
(xxxedit and linkxxx) NGC 2359 is a striking emission nebula with an impressive popular name - Thor's Helmet. Sure, its suggestive winged appearance might lead some to refer to it as the "duck nebula", but if you were a nebula which name would you choose?
![Туманность Чайка](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/03/27/0001234077/Seagull_BarrettDavis900.preview.jpg)
27.03.2009
Images from two different cameras, a digital SLR and an astronomical ccd camera, are combined in this color starscape. Both cameras made use of the same telescope at the oceanside Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys, appropriately creating this portrait of the Seagull Nebula.
![От Чайки к Сириусу](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/15/0001372724/RBA_DS_SeagullToSirius_1364.preview.jpg)
15.12.2016
This broad, beautiful mosaic spans almost 20 degrees across planet Earth's sky. The nebula-rich region lies near the edge of the Orion-Eridanus supperbubble, filled with looping, expanding shells of gas and dust embedded in molecular clouds near the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy.
![Шлем Тора (NGC 2359) и планетарная туманность](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/03/12/0001233874/Thor4Andreo800.preview.jpg)
12.03.2009
At the right, Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) seems to gaze across a lovely star field. The broad skyscape itself covers about 1.5 degrees or 3 full moons toward the constellation Canis Major.
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