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2022-09-01 16:00:05 Virtual flight over the galaxy "Whirlpool", located 23 million light-years away from us. The video is based on images of the Hubble telescope.

The white-yellow specks are old stars, the blue ones are young stars, and the pink spots are areas of active star formation consisting of interstellar gas.

It was in this galaxy that a special spiral structure was first noticed, discovered by astronomer William Parsons in 1845. But at that time, no one could have imagined that the object could be located outside the Milky Way and be another galaxy.

The fact that the universe extends far beyond our galaxy was convincingly proved by astronomer Edwin Hubble only at the beginning of the XX century.

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2022-09-01 13:00:02 Astronomers have stated that something strange is happening to the Sun: an increasing number of sunspots are showing unusual activity.

At the beginning of the week, a massive spot was found on the Sun, directed towards the Earth, which increased 10 times in two days. Today, scientists are confused by another spot – instead of horizontal magnetic fields, it has vertical, rotated 90 degrees. An amateur astronomer filmed large streams of plasma rushing from the spot into space.

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2022-09-01 10:00:03 Moon Rotation

Due to tidal interactions, the Moon is tied to the Earth and always faces it with the same side. However, modern computer technologies and a large number of detailed images of the Moon obtained by the Lunar Orbital Scout allowed us to create this video about the rotation of the Moon.

The video begins with the usual view of the Moon for the Earth. However, shortly after the start, the Eastern Sea, located just below the equator, falls into the frame – a huge crater with a dark center that is difficult to see from the Ground. The entire lunar month is compressed into a 24-second video. It is clearly visible that there are many dark lunar seas on the side of the Moon facing the Earth, while there are more light hills on the reverse side.

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2022-08-31 16:00:05 Working days

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2022-08-31 13:00:02 In China, a rare rainbow cloud was caught on video

Such clouds are called "pileus" (pileus) — they are formed as a result of cooling and condensation of moist air. When sunlight is directed at right angles, it is refracted between drops and ice crystals in the cloud, creating a "curved" rainbow.

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2022-08-31 10:00:03 The rotation of a spiral galaxy around a supermassive black hole in the center.

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2022-08-30 16:00:06 In Saudi Arabia, eyewitnesses managed to film a falling meteorite.

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2022-08-30 13:00:01 Zoom into the very center of our Galaxy.

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2022-08-30 10:00:02 The animation demonstrates the time it takes for the ball to fall on the surface of a celestial body from a height of 1 kilometer without taking into account the influence of the atmosphere (for giants, the boundary of the cloud layer is taken as the surface). Note that the ball will fall slower on Uranus than on Earth, although this ice giant is 14 times heavier! Despite the large mass of the planet, the body falls much further from its barycenter.

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2022-08-29 16:00:07 Where is the asteroid that collided with Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs?

The asteroid was 6.2 miles in diameter (as big as mount Everest) and it struck Earth 65 million years ago.

It impacted Earth at 12 miles per second (20 kilometers per second).

It created winds of 620 mph (1,000 kilometers per hour) near the impact's center.

Megatsunamis over 100 meters (330 ft) tall formed.

The Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 165 million years, but mass extinction only took about 32,000 years.

The crater it left behind is now known as the Chicxulub crater and the impact site sits buried beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico.

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