Participation in the international isolation experiment SIRIUS will take three Russians, two Americans and one representative of the UAE. They must spend in isolation for 240 days. It became known participants isolation experiment SIRIUS-21, which will begin November 4 and…
The most unsaturated year for amateur astronomers will end with a real celestial miracle – the Christmas star will light up in the sky! In fact, this event will be a combination in the sky of two planets – Jupiter…
SpaceX completed its first test flight of the prototype of its Starship launch vehicle on December 10, while the device successfully detached from the site, but exploded when trying to land in a few minutes. The Starship SN8 launched from…
Many processes in the universe take place on gigantic time scales, taking billions of years, so to study such a process, astronomers have to prove on the example of several different space objects that these objects are a reflection of…
The company SpaceX launched a new, larger version of its Dragon space truck to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time in the company’s history that two capsules of this model are in orbit at the same time.…
The Japanese space agency is pleased to celebrate today, Tuesday, the return of a small capsule containing samples of asteroid soil obtained using the Hayabusa2 spacecraft (Hayabusa-2), and the agency’s scientists are looking forward to looking inside after all the…
The Indian space agency intends to launch its orbiter into Venus’s Shukrayaan orbit at the end of 2024, which is more than a year later than planned, the ISRO scientist told the planetary science planning committee established by NASA on…
Scientists at the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) of the Slown Digital Sky Survey have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden deep inside our Milky Way galaxy. These results can significantly change modern ideas about the evolutionary path of…
Immediately after sunset on the evening of December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be in the night sky closer to each other than ever since the Middle Ages, and amateur astronomers around the world will have a unique opportunity to…
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle of SpaceX launched from the Vandenberg Cosmodrome in California and successfully launched the world ocean sensing satellite Sentinel-6, Ilona Mask’s website said on Saturday, November 21. Flight is normal: why Europe’s space successes became possibleMost…
One of the world’s most famous and largest radio telescopes at the Puerto Rican Arecibo telescope will be dismantled due to the threat of collapse. According to engineers, the design has become so unstable that repair is not possible. In…
In 2018, a new atmospheric phenomenon was discovered, reminiscent of the polar lights. In the period from 2015 to 2016. Amateur astronomers reported 30 cases of observations in the sky of a purple strip, just below which, as a rule,…