Annular Solar Eclipse- The "ring of fire" 2023

The "ring of fire" annular eclipse that crossed the United States was indeed a rare and dazzling event. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at its farthest point from Earth, which results in the Sun appearing as a ring or "ring of fire" around the moon.

This Saturday, A full moon of blue flower will appear in the night sky

The full moon of May is typically known as the flower moon due to all the blooms of this month. This year coincides with a rare occurrence: a blue moon.


To see a dramatic full moon over the skyline of Rome, watch the live broadcast provided by the Virtual Telescope Project.Of course, this Saturday's moon will not really be blue. And the reason for the name is a bit confusing.

The record of the longest space journey by a woman

The American astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth after a 328-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that has made her the woman who has made the longest space journey. But this is not the only milestone that has marked this trip. Last October Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made the first spacewalk for women only. 

Not to be missed the astronomical calendar in 2020

In 2020 that shows a great lunar activity. The world experienced events such as the great solar eclipse in July that could be seen in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The scientists also left us pleasant news about space: the publication, for example, of the first image of a black hole,

The Solar Telescope technology captured the highest resolution images of the solar surface

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has formed the highest resolution image of the Sun's surface ever taken located on the Hawaiian island of Maui. This image covers an area of ​​36,500 x 36,500 km. The Sun has been studied for many years. To unveil all its mysteries, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope - DIST,

A Canadian company wants to build a 20-kilometer-long elevator to space

In 2015, an exclusive patent for the creation of an elevator to space received a Canadian company Thoth Technology Inc.. The tower ThothX Tower will be 20 kilometers - is almost 25 times higher than the tallest building in the world, the skyscraper "Burj Khalifa" in the United Arab Emirates. The upper area of the tower will host the start and refueling of spacecraft; they would not require energy-intensive run vertically, which will save up to 30% of the fuel.

China sets a world record 370-day for human life on the moon

The Beijing University of Aviation and Cosmonautics completed a 370-day experiment to simulate the lives of people on the moon, setting a world record for its duration. This was reported on Tuesday by the newspaper China Daily .

There are eight volunteers, boys and girls, replacing each other in each of the three stages of the project,

NASA decided plants that can grow and bear fruits in space

NASA has decided plants develop for future generation of researchers who will need to feed themselves on travel to the Moon or Mars for several months or years. It is no easy to develop plants in space. The plant seeds can spread out in different directions. Water, instead of draining down through the earth, is collected in dewdrop and can flood the roots.

NASA is plans to send a mini helicopter to Mars

The American space agency said, a plans for the first time in the world to send to Mars in 2020 a mini helicopter - a miniature unmanned vehicle, which is designed to significantly deepen our understanding of the Red Planet. 

Astronomers found a pair of dead stars that can be placed between the Earth and the Moon

Astronomers using the NICER telescope found in the group of the Altar a pair of dead stars that could easily be placed between the Earth and the Moon. White dwarf and pulsar are located at a distance of 300 thousand kilometers from each other. The findings of the researchers were published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Astronaut NASA published a lights of fishing vessels from space

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, who is currently on the International Space Station , posted a Bangkok snapshot from space on his Twitter page. On the picture were also the lights of fishing vessels in the Gulf of Thailand.

"The lights of fishing vessels seem like the stars that were nailed to the shore of the Gulf of Thailand,

SpaceX launched a new version of Falcon 9

Falcon 9 launched vehicle will put into orbit a satellite for Bangladesh.Company Ilona Mask SpaceX has launched into space a new modification of the rocket Falcon 9 Block 5 which is to bring into orbit the Earth satellite Bangabandhu Satellite-1 commissioned by the Government of Bangladesh. The launch was carried out at 23:14 on Friday, May 11, in Kyiv time.

An asteroid on the cold outer edge of the solar system

The international team of astronomers discovered in the Kuiper belt an extraordinary object that turned out to be, as it turned out, a carbon-rich asteroid. This asteroid became the first of its kind object identified on the cold outer edge of the solar system. Probably, this mysterious object formed in the Main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,

The first time that an "exploding pulsar" was a slow-pulsating transient pulsar

The University of Southampton, Great Britain, discovered that a unique "exploding pulsar" - a neutron star that "pulls" matter from a companion star - may also be the slowest transient pulsar known to science. Transient pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars that perform transitions from x-ray to radio pulsations and back for several years.

The helium for the first time on a planet outside of our solar system

The international teams of astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of WASP-107b. It is the first time that this chemical element has been detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

The astronomers, led by Jessica Spake, of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, used

The rings of Saturn crossed an impossible way

At first momentary look, the rings of Saturn seem to cross each other in an impossible way. In fact, what this view of the Cassini international ship shows are the rings that pass in front of the planet, on which they project their shadow. And because the rings like those of the A ring and the Cassini division,

On Wednesday, May 9, a large dangerous asteroid will pass by Earth

A large dangerous asteroid, most probably about 300 meters in diameter, will pass by the Earth on Wednesday, May 9. This cosmic stone, called the 2008 TZ3, will fly ancient times our planet at 10:06 UTC, staying away from it at a safe distance of about 6.5 distances, the Earth-Moon (lunar distance, LD), which is 2.5 million kilometers.

The world's first satellites outside the earth's orbit transmit a radio signal to our planet

NASA indicating a radio signals received that the world's first satellites of the "kubsat" format, moving in outer space beyond the limits of the orbit of our planet, are in good working order and operate in the regular mode. The first signal was received yesterday at 20:15 UTC, and the second - almost two hours after the first - at 21:58 UTC. 

Dragon's company SpaceX successfully disconnected from ISS and disappeared in the specified area

On Saturday, May 5, the American company Dragon's SpaceX, the cargo space shuttle had successfully disconnected from the International Space Station, and then safely disappeared in the specified area of ​​the Pacific Ocean. The cargo shuttle delivered about two tons of cargo to the Earth with the ISS.

Delta IV rocket put into orbit a satellite for the US military

United Launch Alliance Company successfully conducted the launch of a rocket Delta IV, which brought with it the WGS-9 satellite for military use. 

A start was made from Cape Canaveral, located in Florida.