- 26 June 2022
The importance of sleep cannot be overemphasized. We don’t usually think about it because we usually get a lot of sleep. If we spend a night without sleep, then we make up for it later. But what about astronauts?
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- 26 June 2022
“A human being born at one of Uranus’s poles would be a middle-aged man at sunset and a very old man before it was time for a second sunrise.” ― Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong
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- 26 June 2022
“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn – the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.”
― Walter Benjamin
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- 12 June 2022
June 5, early in the morning, at 06:45 local time from Jiuquan rocket launch, three Chinese taikonauts flew in the Shenzhou 14 spacecraft with a Long March 2F rocket to the Chinese space station on a six-month mission during which things will change in space.
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- 12 June 2022
The discovery of Venus is certainly prehistoric, although at that time people did not know about the planets. The first records of the observation of Venus come from Babylon.
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- 12 June 2022
A big “ironing of the planets” will follow us in ten days just before sunrise. The actors of the event are already on stage, rehearsing for the final showdown on June 24, but this does not mean that they are not already available for observation with the naked eye.
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- 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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