NGC 6727: Mgławica Szalejący Pawian

2024-09-24 Alpha Zhang & Ting Yu

This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling molecular cloud complex that resembles, to some, a rampaging baboon, the region is a relatively close by 500 light-years away toward the constellation Corona Australis. That's about one ...

Zbliża się kometa Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

2024-09-23 Brian Valente & Greg Stein

What will happen as this already bright comet approaches? Optimistic predictions have Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) briefly becoming easily visible to the unaided eye -- although the future brightness of comets are notoriously hard to ...

Chicagohenge: równonoc w wyrównanym...

2024-09-22 Anthony Artese

Chicago, in a way, is like a modern Stonehenge. The way is east to west, and the time is today. Today, and every equinox, the Sun will set exactly to the west, everywhere on Earth. Therefore, today in Chicago, the Sun will set directly down the ...

Wschód słońca - cienie na niebie

2024-09-21 Emili Vilamala

The defining astronomical moment of this September's equinox is at 12:44 UTC on September 22, when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving south in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky. That marks the beginning of fall for ...

Mglisty księżyc żniw

2024-09-20 Petr Horálek

For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. On September 17/18 the sunlit lunar nearside passed into shadow, just grazing Earth's umbra, the planet's dark, central shadow cone, in a partial lunar ...

Ciemny konik morski Cefeusza

2024-09-19 Davide Broise

Spanning light-years, this suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula floats in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, dark nebula is part of a Milky Way ...

Pozostałość po supernowej w Mgławicy...

2024-09-18 Neil Corke; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)

New stars are born from the remnants of dead stars. The gaseous remnant of the gravitational collapse and subsequent death of a very massive star in our Milky Way created the G296.5+10.0 supernova remnant, of which the featured Mermaid Nebula is ...

Melotte 15 w Mgławicy Serce

2024-09-17 Richard McInnis

Cosmic clouds form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. The clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15. About 1.5 million years ...

Krater Vivaldi na Merkurym z BepiColombo

2024-09-16

Why does this large crater on Mercury have two rings and a smooth floor? No one is sure. The unusual feature called Vivaldi Crater spans 215 kilometers and was imaged again in great detail by ESA's and JAXA's robotic BepiColombo ...

Znajdź człowieka na księżycu

2024-09-15 Dani Caxete

Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia -- imagining familiar icons where they don't actually exist. The textured surface of Earth's full Moon is home to numerous ...