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Orbit Virgin are unable to launch a rocket from the plane — what happened to her?
While SpaceX is preparing to host its first manned launch into space, its competitors are also not sitting still. For example, the Orbit of Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson decided to stand out in an unusual rocket launch... di...
What is the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly and why it's dangerous for everyone
On our planet a lot of places that are considered to be mystical. Some of them become so because of popular beliefs or set of circumstances, but there are those where there are really strange things that scientists can detect, but...
may 27, 2020, SpaceX plans to conduct the first manned flight of the spacecraft Crew Dragon, which is to deliver American astronauts to the ISS. Bob Behnke and Doug Hurley will be the first people sent into space aboard a private ...
Rocket launch into space from the plane: Virgin Orbit will make it may 24, 2020
Agree to live in the era of space exploration is very cool, because you can observe the launch of rockets in real time right from home. Recently, the British billionaire Richard Branson, the founder announced plans to test an orbi...
Astronomers first saw the birth of the planets near young star
it is always a nice little escape from everyday worries and think about something in everyday life you almost do not face (if you are an astronomer, of course) – we are talking about the formation of planets in the vastness of the...
What is solar minimum and why it is not necessary to be afraid of him?
According to the researchers , we live in a time «big solar at least». The last time this solar cycle was observed between 1650 and 1715, during the so-called little ice age in the Northern hemisphere of the Earth, when ...
If you ponder the question of why the night sky is dark, it may seem that all this does not make sense. While anyone who has ever looked into the night sky, there was no doubt that it is very dark. on our planet largely transparen...
The roar of the engines and the curfew: as SpaceX has forced residents of Texas to sell their homes
after Each successful test of a new rocket (or failed launch, this also happens) SpaceX we often see reports that it happened on the new built spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas. What is this place? It's a small village with a few doz...
#video | In the Krasnoyarsk region was again hit by a meteor
How often fall to the Ground are meteorites? Yes, every day if at every hour. That's only in the concept of ”fall” people are investing different meaning. For some it is falling on the planet's surface with destruction as in the m...
For all history of existence of the Earth people is constantly involved in fights with each other over territory. Even the caveman didn't want to admit to their habitat, what can we say about more recent times, when men began to u...
The source of power for the new lunar Rover is a laser. How does it work?
Humankind periodically sends to the moon special moon Rovers (Rovers), which allow you to learn more about the Earth's satellite. For example, thanks to one of the soil analysis of the moon, astronomers were able to learn that the...
Looking at pictures of distant galaxies obtained by the Hubble space telescope, we don't so often think about how beings are born, live and die, these parts of the cosmic web. In 1929, when Edwin Hubble radically changed our view ...
Where on Mars can people live?
Let us for a moment imagine that scientists were able to send people to Mars. But what will they do there? Mars – not the most friendly planet for life. There at least there is no oxygen, not to mention cosmic radiation, which on ...
What is regolith and why China is flying over the lunar soil
What if I tell you that in competition everyone wants to be first? Of course, this is nothing new. This principle works in every sphere on Earth and in space. This led to the space race between the and the United States, it caused...
Scientists are killing the stars in a computer simulation. But why?
to unravel the mysteries of black holes, a team of Australian astrophysicists simulates a virtual star — and then repeatedly killing them. But about all under the order: 12 April 2019 Observatory LIGO and VIRGO have detected gravi...
Can meteorites move at a speed close to the speed of light?
I Think for anybody today not a secret that our planet – from the very moment of its birth, some 4.5 billion years ago – is constantly exposed to a real bombing... meteorites. Of course, today the situation is fundamentally differ...
Again, the scientists don't know how the Moon appeared
Despite the fact that the Moon is closer to Earth than any other of the studied object in the Universe, scientists still have not come to a consensus about how it appeared the satellite of our planet. Once in 1972 in the framework...
Why rotates the Earth and other space objects?
Every day the Earth makes one revolution around its axis, that's why on our planet there are sunrises and sunsets. Our stony cosmic house moves since, as it formed 4.6 billion years ago and will continue to run until the end of ti...
How long is the flight to Mars?
After the appearance of SpaceX Elon musk space became more interested in humanity. All these plans for interplanetary expeditions, colonization of the red planet — miracles, and only. Let's assume that the future is now and ...
ISS is no longer needed? China is ready to launch his space station
China is again ahead of the rest, 7 may, the office for the manned space flights of the country reported on the successful return to Earth of the spaceship of new generation. The test flight lasted almost 3 days — during thi...