- 2 June 2022
The OSR Fly me to the Stars VR app lets you explore the universe and learn about the 88 constellations in our night sky. Draw all golden constellations to unlock new planets. Complete the game and receive a reward! View the details about your own special star to learn more about astronomy. The free mobile VR App is available for iOS and Android. Download the app now and fly to the stars!
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- 30 May 2022
The work suits of astronauts used when going out of a spaceship are small technological marvels that allow a person to work and stay outside the safety of the interior of a spaceship. If the suit fails while the astronaut is in open space, it’s only a few tens of seconds or at best a minute or two to certain death.
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- 27 May 2022
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the planet at an altitude of about 400 kilometers (between 322 and 402 km).
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- 25 May 2022
The first serious attempt to detect an extrasolar planet was made by Huygens in the 17th century. However, he soon realized that with his modest telescope he could not achieve sufficiently precise observations, which are of great importance in this case.
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- 23 May 2022
The visible universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, with each galaxy, such as the Milky Way, numbering about 100 billion stars.
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- 23 May 2022
Comets are beautiful astronomical visions that consist of three parts: the nucleus, the coma and the tail. The comet’s core is filled with frozen gases, dust and stones which are released during orbit to create a coma (atmosphere) and tail.
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- 23 May 2022
Ever since the Milky Way was discovered, thanks to Galileo, its greatness has haunted astronomers. How big it is was a ticklish question, but how to answer it when there is no meter to measure the width of our galaxy.
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- 3 May 2022
A Local cluster of galaxies (or Local group) is a set of mostly dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally connected and located within a circle of one megaparsec*. However, that distance is not so important for group membership.
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- 2 May 2022
Not so long ago, Labor Day was a “must have” event to be celebrated. Today, it is a somewhat faded scrapbook of the efforts of the ordinary, normal, working population and their household to ensure their human needs through their work. But…
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- 29 April 2022
April 12 is a day that the United Nations has so far celebrated as the International Day of Man’s Flight into Space. The general hysteria currently reigning in the world has led to this day not being mentioned in the media. And the reason for the celebration is incredible: on that day, Gagarin flew into space and hinted at a completely new era.
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