Space

😮On August 12, a rare astronomical show awaits us — three bright celestial events will coincide on the same day: a solar eclipse, a planetary parade, and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Astronomers call this coincidence extremely rare: • Before dawn, yo…

Scientists from the United States obtained the most detailed images of the Sun’s surface — and for the first time, they spotted moving feather‑like patterns in them. Initially, the images were taken to adjust the Inouye telescope at the observatory in Hawaii.…

☁️ The cloudy sky of Mars, captured by the Curiosity rover.

The aurora borealis over Iceland in the shape of a phoenix.

A collage of the space objects of our system

We’re not so round after all: please welcome the Earth’s geoid — a theoretical surface. It shows the level of the world’s oceans beneath the continents, which is affected only by the force of gravity — without taking into account tides, currents, and atmospher…

The largest planet in the Universe HD 100546 b, the largest known exoplanet, was discovered using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. It is located 337 light‑years away from the Solar System.

The analemma is the annual apparent motion of the Sun across the celestial sphere. Its shape and tilt are determined by the tilt of the Earth's axis, its orientation, and the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit. The highest and lowest points correspond to the sum…