Телеграм канал «Outer Space 🚀»

Patterns of star islands Hubble is again delighting with beautiful photos: this time the telescope has captured a group of three galaxies in the Phoenix constellation, known collectively as NGC 7764A. The three galaxies are individually labeled NGC 7764A1, NGC 7764A2 and NGC 7764A3. If you get a little fancy, it might look like the two galaxies in the upper right corner resemble the USS Enterprise, the Constitution-class starship of Starfleet from Star Trek. NGC 7764A is located about 425 million light-years from Earth. What's really going on in the picture? We can only guess. It is possible that galaxies collided or interacted, resulting in tails of stars and gas.

A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Launch Pad 39A to deliver private astronauts to the International Space Station (Mission Ax-1). Photo: SpaceX, April 2022

On April 9, a huge prominence was observed over the southern hemisphere of the Sun, with a total length of about 1 million km! There is no data yet on how many hours it lasted. The animation above is made for you from the latest images from the solar space observatory. Enjoy with us.

Magnetar Artistic Concept On December 27, 2004, a gamma ray burst from SGR 1806-20 arrived in the solar system. The burst was so powerful that it impacted Earth's atmosphere more than 50,000 light-years away. The magnetar emitted more energy in one tenth of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years. The outburst is considered the largest explosion in the galaxy since the supernova SN 1604, observed by Johannes Kepler in 1604.

The universe's most powerful magnets There are objects in the universe with extremely powerful magnetic fields. Even within a radius of 1000 kilometers around it, life would be impossible due to distortions of electron clouds of atoms under the influence of its magnetic field. This object is a magnetar - a neutron star, the first evidence of whose existence was obtained in 1998 by observing a powerful flash of gamma-ray and X-ray radiation. Today scientists know of 30 magnetars. The diameter of such a star is about 20 km and its mass is about 1.4 solar masses. They are formed from massive stars with a mass 10-25 times the mass of the Sun. The density of the inside of a magnetar is such that a tablespoon of its matter weighs more than 100 million tons.😱

The first space rat 🐭 In 1961, France launched Hector into space, where he spent 8 minutes before successfully returning unharmed☺️

Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet? Since 2006, Pluto was classified as "minor planets and asteroids”. Scientists were forced to revise the classification by the discovery of Ceres and Eris. They, like Pluto, have not yet cleared their orbit of extraneous celestial bodies. In addition, Pluto cannot be considered the most massive body in its neighborhood. Therefore, despite the presence of an atmosphere and its own satellite, it is still not considered the ninth planet.