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2022-05-25 13:00:05 On June 24, we will see a beautiful event: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus will come together in a grand planetary parade. However, to see Neptune and Uranus, you will need binoculars or a telescope.

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2022-05-25 10:00:05 Video of Starliner docking to the ISS

We are waiting for a safe return to Earth and the results of certification, but it looks sad so far.

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2022-05-24 19:00:05 The team of the Solar Orbiter solar probe has published new detailed images of the Sun obtained by the device during the passage of the fourth perihelion.

The spacecraft made its fourth approach to the Sun, being at a distance of about a third of an astronomical unit from the star. During the passage of the perihelion, the Sun was examined by 10 scientific instruments of the apparatus, hidden under a heat shield, which was heated to 500 °C.

Experts have published new detailed images of the Sun obtained by him during the last approach using the EUI instrument operating in the extreme ultraviolet range. Among them there is the clearest image of the south pole of the Sun to date, which is obtained at an angle — the probe will receive a full panorama of the poles of the star in 2025-2029.

Another interesting object in the pictures was the "hedgehog" — that's what the team called the plasma structure, which stretches for 25 thousand kilometers and consists of many separate threads diverging in time Open / Comment

2022-05-24 16:00:04 Visualization of the Sun's magnetic field.

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2022-05-24 13:00:05 These concept wheels are made with interconnected springs so not even the sharpest moon rock can pop these tires

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2022-05-24 10:00:06 Fire in space

On July 18, 2014, astronaut Reed Wiseman managed to get a fiery sphere similar to a jellyfish as a result of an experiment. The results of his experiments may lead to improved engines on Earth

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2022-05-23 19:00:06 The video shows HD 131399 Ab– an exoplanet with three suns.

The parent star of this place is HD 131399 A, part of the triple star system HD 131399. The other two stars HD 131399 B and HD 131399 C revolve around a common center of mass and together around the star HD 131399 A. One year on HD 131399 Ab is equal to 550 Earth years. For 100-140 years, all three suns are visible all day, so the planet is fully illuminated at this time. There are also double sunrises and sunsets, when a single sun sets, two rise or vice versa.

Life on it is unlikely due to the absence of a solid surface, liquid water and the presence of strong winds, as well as periodic rains of liquid iron in the upper atmosphere.

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2022-05-23 16:00:04 Travel 13 billion years ago in just 1 minute

The light we see was emitted by these galaxies at a time when the universe was only a few hundred million years old.

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2022-05-23 13:00:06 Virtual flight over the Whirlpool galaxy, 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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2022-05-23 10:00:04 Pluto's satellite, Charon, does not revolve around it — both of these celestial bodies revolve around a common center of mass. At the same time, the other three satellites of Pluto rotate around it in normal orbits.

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