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Everything you wanted to know about methane lakes of Titan, but were afraid to ask
Titan in the lens of the NASA "" Titan is probably one of the most fascinating moons orbiting Saturn today. This is despite the fact that the gas giant has the largest number of satellites in the Solar system. Astronomers and scie...
View from the surface located near a red dwarf planet in the view of the artist As is known, in the Solar system has 8 planets, the largest of which — easily could be a star if you increase its mass by a few percent. Despite...
Pluto — the largest object in the Kuiper belt. As many of you know, Pluto until recently was considered a full-fledged planet of the Solar System. However, the opening at the beginning of the XXI century several TRANS-Neptun...
Whether on a planet near a black hole to be life?
still from the film “interstellar”. The moment when the heroes arrived on the planet Miller According to the General theory of relativity , supermassive black hole distorts the surrounding space-time. If you watched the movie “int...
Can "planet of 9" to be a black hole?
the Mysterious planet 9 could be the unusual black hole One of the most intriguing mysteries of astronomy is understanding that it distorts the orbits of celestial objects on the edge of the Solar system. Agree, the strange orbits...
The satellite, which can turn Neptune into a planet with rings
the size of Earth and Neptune Neptune — the furthest planet-the giant . In the atmosphere of this distant world are raging the most powerful hurricanes, which could only be registered among other known planets and their sat...
Why do Venus and mercury has no natural satellites?
Despite its similarity with Earth, Venus has no satellites of its own Absolutely all the planets of the Solar system, with the exception of and can boast the presence of at least one stable satellite rotating in orbit of a particu...
What do we know about the moons of Uranus?
Uranium — the third is the diameter of a planet in the Solar system Uranium — the mysterious and little-studied planet in the Solar system. When in 1986 the space station sent pictures of this ice giant on Earth, scien...
In the future the Earth will spin faster. Than it threatens?
Why the speed of rotation of our planet might change in the future? have You ever wondered what would happen if our planet ? If not, catch a spoiler — nothing good. Recently, scientists came to the conclusion that as a resul...
What would happen if the Earth's magnetic field will disappear?
the Magnetic field of the Earth helps us safely and comfortably to live on our blue planet the Earth, as if by invisible threads, is surrounded by a magnetic field of the planet. This field is generated by an internal source, is e...
A strange moon of Jupiter continues to surprise scientists 400 years after its discovery
the Surface of IO is strongly reminiscent of the work of some impressionist painter. Many of you know perfectly well that the largest planet has a huge entourage of 75 moons-satellites, each of which can be interesting for researc...
What the sea could disappear from the face of the Earth?
Some of the sea our planet may disappear in the near future Every second our planet is changing. This is partly there fault and the person who leads the harmful human activities. In addition to human influence, our planet is const...
What would happen if all the oceans disappeared?
the Disappearance of the worldís oceans may lead to mass extinction of life on our planet. the Ocean — it is the main stabilizer of life on our planet. It is possible that the presence of large water supplies in a particular...
Astronomers have discovered a giant planet that should not exist
the Opening of Spanish astronomers could change our understanding of the formation of planets around small stars. the Spanish resort town of Costa de Almeria is famous not only for the scorching sun, sea and breathtaking landscape...
The planets may revolve around black holes
Supermassive black holes can also have their own planetary system Many of us know that the planets revolve around stars, stars revolve around the galactic center, and galaxies, in turn, revolve around a hypothetical “Great attract...
What color is the sky on other planets?
Can be alien sunsets are so spectacular as on Earth? As is known, the rays of the Sun are white, which is refracted on a large number of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere, forming a huge palette . Thanks to this natural phenom...
Now it's official — scientists have found that Saturn loses its rings
So rings of a gas giant look like in ultraviolet When you think about the planets , what, in your opinion, attracts the most attention? Obviously, this is Saturn. All thanks to this amazing rings of the giant planet. While the pla...
Ancient civilizations harm nature
damage caused to the environment for many thousands of years. We are naive to believe that harmful human activity originates only with the development of the media industry in the twentieth century. According to a new study condu...
Director, NASA insists that Pluto is a planet
still from the animated series "Rick and Morty" — king of the inhabitants of Pluto meets Morty and Jerry If any of the readers are fans of the animated series "Rick and Morty" then you certainly remember the series about Pluto and...
Found a new way to search for extraterrestrial life
Visible . Frame from a recent video NASA We live on a huge ball. It rotates around its axis and around the giant hot star, which is located inside the galaxy, located somewhere in the Universe, close to a trillion of the same . Wi...