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Brightest comet 2024

#Astrokhata about serious things. There is speculation that comet C/2023 A3 will have a brightness of -2.5 to -3 m this October and will actually become the brightest this decade, if it survives its approach to the Sun, of course. So everyone I know and don't know must live to see this event to tell...

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Time and Mind in the Universe

If we wanted to reach the nearest star after the Sun, Proxima Centauri, by car, it would take us about 50 million years at a speed of 100 km/h. From this we can come to an interesting conclusion - the main resource of our life is this TIME and also the mind so as not to waste this time in...

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Soul and Heart in one nebula

You can endlessly look at water and fire, but the most magical thing is open space. At the center of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) is the star cluster Melotta 15, which illuminates the surrounding gas and dust. In addition, there is also the Soul Nebula (IC 1848). And all this is about 7500 light...

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Starlight

The light of the Sun goes to the Earth, breaking the bushes and overcoming the barchans of the internal resistance of our star for 30 thousand years. That is how much time photons need to make their way from the center to the surface of the star. But after that, they need only 8 minutes to touch the...

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Saturn Iapetus and the rings

Today it's about black and white. There is one small but interesting satellite of Saturn - Iapetus. One hemisphere of Iapetus is black as pitch, and the other glistens like snow. It is still not known for sure why this icy block in space is so clearly divided into light and dark. However, that's...

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