Tomorrow the planets will line up to look at us! Tomorrow, March 1, a real "Grand Parade of the Planets" will take place in the sky, where six celestial bodies will line up in a line, as if for a scarce commodity. Catch this moment right after sunset (approximately from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.), before the planets have gone about their business. You need to look at the western part of the sky - there Venus will shine brighter than your phone, and Jupiter will keep it company a little higher. If you miss tomorrow's performance, the next chance to get such a group...
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Space "train" above us: let's catch Starlink this weekend! Today and tomorrow, residents of our region will be able to see a spectacular parade of Elon Musk's satellites. Dozens of lights flying in an even string are a real futurism in the night sky! 🕒 When to look up: Today (22.02): at 18:20 Tomorrow (23.02): at 18:23 and the day after tomorrow (24.02) at 18:28 💡 Tip: You don't need a telescope - the satellites are best seen with the naked eye. The main thing is to get to the position a couple of minutes before the start and choose a place away from the...
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ESA astronomers decided to save their eyesight and set the AnomalyMatch AI on Hubble's massive 35-year archive. The results were shocking: in just three days (and on a single graphics card!), the neural network sifted through 100 million images. The result of this "spring cleaning": over 800 previously unknown objects were discovered that humans had simply overlooked. The haul included galactic collisions, space warps, and even cosmic "jellyfish." It turns out there are more treasures in those dusty archives than we thought! Want to know what a "jellyfish galaxy" is...
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Good news for Ukrainian night sky watchers: the phenomenon will be visible throughout our country, and you will have time to enjoy it before the curfew begins. 23:55 – end of the penumbral phase. During the full phase, the Moon will take on a deep copper-red color...
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Betelgeuse has always excited my imagination. I thought it had already exploded and clumps of its matter were drifting through space. But it turns out Betelgeuse simply has a blue companion that can affect the six-year cycle of brightness changes of the red star. The companion star was first discovered in 2024 after several years of observations. However, it was only now that photographs were obtained....
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The photograph (taken with the LASCO telescopes on May 24, 2025) shows a spectacular coronal mass ejection, or prominence, that looks like a bird flying away from the Sun. The bird is 10 times larger than Earth. It is relatively cold solar material ejected into the magnetosphere of our star and continues to move toward the outer edges of the solar system. Beautiful and majestic. #Astrohata...
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On March 29, a solar eclipse will be visible in Ukraine from 10:50 a.m. to 2:43 p.m. Kyiv time. The war is unlikely to end after this, but it will be interesting to watch the astronomical phenomenon....
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Many astronomers are currently watching the constellation Corona Borealis (CrB) for the long-awaited outburst of the repeating variable star T CrB. When that happens (possibly in the next few weeks), "T Cor Bor" is expected to brighten dramatically, a couple thousand times in a matter of hours. Look just above Arcturus and slightly to the left. If the sky is dark, you'll see a set of stars shaped like a cup without a handle. That's the constellation Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Only one of its seven stars is very bright, and it's called Alphekka, which is...
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Stars are giant balls of hot gas composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. And why are they hot and bright? Thanks to nuclear fusion, temperature, pressure and mass are all in a delicate balance up to a certain point. 99% of the mass of our solar system is the Sun. It is not for nothing that our Star has been compared to God since ancient times. And when the first ray of the Sun touches your face in the morning - remember space, #Astrohata and red dry of course)...
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#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 posterity. Look up and under your feet, my dears...
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