Outer space interesting facts. Game "Space Dictionary"

Today, in the times of space rockets, satellites and lunar rovers, we have something to tell our children. However, the scale of the Universe is difficult to imagine even for an adult. All that remains is to come up with an interesting way to talk about space and introduce him to the basics of astronomy.

How to tell

Given the characteristics of childhood, it is very important to make the story simple and effective. To do this, you can use visual experiments. We describe examples of such experiments below. Thus, it will be much easier for the child to become familiar with thematic concepts that are difficult for him.

Today, parents are offered a large number of thematic materials that can also be used in their story.

Preschool children perfectly absorb information presented in a playful form, in the form of a fairy tale or poem.

When telling your child about space for the first time, think about the fact that maybe, as an adult, looking at the stars, he will remember your activities and smile.

What to tell

Introduction

Look at the sky. It seems that it is very close - stretch out your hand and touch the sun or the moon, but if you climb to the top of a tall tree, you will find yourself right next to them. But in reality this is not the case. Neither we can reach the sky with our hands, nor the trees with their tops. The sun, moon and stars are very far from us. These are large planets that you need to fly to in a spaceship.

There are 8 planets in the solar system. They all revolve around the Sun, constantly along the same path, which is called an orbit. And one of these planets is our Earth.

Sun

What to tell:

The sun is a large and very hot star, a huge, hot ball. It is very far away, but the heat from its rays reaches all the planets circling around it, and ours too. That's why it's warm here.

Not all stars are like the Sun. There are small stars, and medium ones, and huge ones - larger than the Sun.

Visual material:

To compare the size of the Sun with the size of the Earth, you can take a pumpkin or watermelon and a pea. The pea is our Earth, the pumpkin is the Sun.

The Earth is as much smaller than the Sun as a pea is smaller than a pumpkin.

What to tell:

The moon is a satellite of our planet; it is only three days away. The Moon moves around the Earth counterclockwise.

We see the moon only at night. The moon, as we see it in the sky, is not always the same shape. There are the following phases: new moon, crescent of the waxing moon, first quarter of the waxing moon, waxing moon, full moon and then decreasing: waning moon, quarter of the waning moon, crescent of the waning moon, new moon again.

If the crescent in the sky looks like the letter C, then the moon is “old” and waning. If we visually draw a stick and get the letter P, then the moon is growing.

Visual material:

To demonstrate why the moon is sometimes round and sometimes crescent-shaped, take a regular table lamp and a ball. Conduct an experiment together by creating a moon at home. Show your child that we only see the illuminated part of the ball.

Earth

What to tell:

Our planet is surrounded by an atmosphere. This is a protective layer that saves inhabitants from solar ultraviolet radiation, as well as from most meteorites. It can be compared to a blanket of air. It is thanks to him that our planet has the air that we breathe.

The most important difference between the Earth and others is the presence of life on it.

It is believed that the rest of the space is lifeless. The belief and desire of people to find life on other planets forces us to design spaceships to travel into space in order to study it.

Visual material:

You can boil a chicken egg and use it as an example to see what the Earth’s atmosphere is like. Our planet is surrounded by a multi-layered atmosphere, just as the yolk of an egg is surrounded by white.

Other planets of the solar system

What to tell:

There are only 8 planets in the solar system. The largest of them is Jupiter. And the most interesting is Saturn, because it has huge rings around it.

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune also have rings, but they cannot be seen from Earth.

Pluto was one of the last to be discovered. It was discovered in 1930. At first it was considered the ninth planet. But over time, they were assigned to another category of cosmic bodies - “dwarf planets”.

Planets are considered to be cosmic bodies that:

• revolve around some star (in the case of the Solar System, this is the Sun);
• have their own gravity, which explains their spherical (round) or close to spherical shape;
• are not located near other similar large bodies;
• are not stars.

All planets in order
Any of us can name:
One - Mercury,
Two - Venus,
Three - Earth,
Four - Mars.
Five - Jupiter,
Six - Saturn,
Seven - Uranus,
Behind him is Neptune.
He is the eighth in a row.
And after him, then,
And the ninth planet
Called Pluto.

What to tell:

The closest star to us is the Sun. There are a huge number of stars in space that cannot be counted. Any star is a hot ball of gas that was formed from hydrogen molecules joined together.

A cluster of stars forms constellations.

Visual material:

To tell why the sun shines so brightly, take a regular flashlight or phosphor stars. With the lights off, hold them close to your baby so he can see how bright they burn.

Then slowly move to the end of the room, demonstrating that the luminous objects, moving away, become small and faded. Explain that the stars only appear small because they are very far away from us.

Telescopes help us see them closer by zooming in on images of stars and allowing us to see them better.

How a rocket flies

What to tell:

On April 12, our country celebrates Cosmonautics Day. On this day in 1961, people's dream of flying into space came true - the first cosmonaut in history, Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, flew into space on the Vostok-1 spacecraft. Its flight around the Earth lasted 108 minutes. Since then, we have celebrated Cosmonautics Day every year on this day.

Visual material:

Inflate the balloon and pinch the hole with your fingers. And then unclench your fingers and your ball will suddenly burst upward. This happens because air escapes from the balloon. And when the air runs out, the ball will fall.

The balloon flew like a rocket - it moved forward as long as there was air in it. A rocket flies into space using approximately the same principle, only instead of air it has fuel. When burning, the fuel turns into gas and bursts back into flame.

The first stage runs out of fuel - it falls away, and the second stage engine immediately turns on and carries the rocket even faster and even higher. So only the third stage – the smallest and lightest – reaches space. It launches the cabin with the astronaut into orbit.

5 games on the topic

1. Game "What will we take with us into space"

Lay out the drawings in front of your child and ask them to choose what they can take with them on the spaceship.

These can be the following pictures: a book, a notebook, a spacesuit, an apple, a candy, a tube of semolina, an alarm clock, a sausage.

2. Game "Space Dictionary"

The game will help your child replenish his vocabulary with words related to the theme of space.

Whoever can name the most words related to space wins.

For example: satellite, rocket, alien, planets, Moon, Earth, astronaut, spacesuit, etc.

3. Game "Say the opposite"

The goal of the game is to teach the child to choose words with opposite meanings - antonyms.

For example:
distant -...
tight -...
big -…
get up -…
bright -…
fly away -...
high -…
famous -…
include -...
dark -...

4. Game "Navigating by the stars"

Together with your child, imagine that you are sailors lost in the Pacific Ocean. Ask your child to cut out small stars from paper and help glue them to the back of the tabletop to create the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major.

Cover the table with a blanket - this will be your ship, take a flashlight and climb inside. It's night, the only compass has sunk, and all you can see are the stars above your heads (you can illuminate them with a flashlight).

Try together, looking at the stars, to determine which direction you should sail if you are heading east.

5. Game "Space Stones"

Every kitchen has baking foil. Such material can easily turn into space balls-rocks.

Scatter them in visible places so that the child can then collect these space stones. Then they can be thrown at a target or simply into a bowl, training accuracy.

Books for children on the theme of space

1. "Amazing starry sky. Atlas with stickers", S. Andreev;
2. "Discovering Space" by Morton Jenkins;
3. "Professor Astrocat and His Journey into Space", Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman;
4. "Cosmos", D. Kostyukov, Z. Surova;
5. "Fascinating astronomy", E. Kachur;
6. Series "Your first encyclopedia", book "Wonderful Planet", publishing house "Makhaon";
7. Series "The Very First Encyclopedia", book "Planet Earth", publishing house "Rosman";
8. “My first book about space”, K. Portsevsky, M. Lukyanov;
9. "Stars and Planets. Encyclopedia for Children", E. Prati;
10. "Petya's extraordinary adventures in space", A. Ivanov, V. Merzlenko.

1. Cartoon series "Children and Space";
2. Educational cartoon "Planet Earth";
3. Entertaining lessons from Sahakyants "Astronomy for the little ones";
4. "The Secret of the Third Planet";
5. "Dunno on the Moon";
6. "Monkeys in Space";
7. "Pep's Pig", episode "A Trip to the Moon";
8. "Star Dogs: Belka and Strelka";
9. "Belka and Strelka: Lunar Adventures";
10. "Egon and Donchi";
11. "The Lunar Expedition of Christopher Cullumbus";
12. "Tom and Jerry: Flight to Mars";
13. "The Mystery of the Red Planet";
14. "Planet 51";
15. "Big space adventure";
16. "Planet of the Wind";
17. "Let's fly to the moon";
18. "Wally"
19. "Treasure Planet";
20. "Smeshariki: pin code collection."

1. Observatories

Moscow City Palace of Children and Youth Creativity

m. University, st. Kosygina, 17, cor. 1Price: free.

Astronomical Observatory of Moscow State University(State Astronomical Institute named after P.K. Sternberg at Moscow State University)

Moscow, Universitetsky Prospekt, 13
Price: free.

Observatory at the Moscow Planetarium

m. Barrikadnaya, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5, building 1
Price: on weekdays 250 rubles, on weekends 300 rubles.

People's Observatory on the territory of Gorky Park

m. Gorky Park, Oktyabrskaya.
Price: 200 rub.

People's Observatory on the territory of Sokolniki Park

m. Sokolniki, park territory
Price: 150 rub.
From Thursday to Sunday you can rent an external telescope for 50 rubles.

2. Planetariums

Moscow Planetarium

Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., 5, building 1
Price: from 100 rub.

Planetarium of the Central House of the Russian Army

Suvorovskaya sq., 2, building 32
Price: 200 rub.

April 12th is celebrated in our country Cosmonautics Day. On this day in 1961, our planet was shocked by unexpected news: “Man in space!” People's dream of flying into space has come true. On an April morning, the first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin flew into space on the Vostok-1 spacecraft. The flight around the Earth lasted 108 minutes.

The starry sky has always attracted the eyes of people, beckoning with its uncertainty. People dreamed of learning as much as possible about space. Thus began the time of space rockets, satellites, lunar rovers...

Let's tell children about space and astronauts so that they have an idea

It’s good if parents read books about space with their children, show pictures, and look at the starry globe. You can play space-themed games with your children, read and learn poems about space, and guess interesting

Telling children about space

Planets and stars

Our Earth is a huge ball on which there are seas, rivers, mountains, deserts and forests. And also people live. Our Earth and everything that surrounds it is called the Universe, or space. In addition to our blue planet, there are others, as well as stars. Stars are huge balls of light. - also a star. It is located close to the Earth, so we see it and feel its heat.

We see stars only at night, and during the day the Sun eclipses them. There are stars even bigger than the sun

In addition to the Earth, there are 8 more planets in the solar system, each planet has its own path, which is called an orbit.

Let's remember the planets:

All planets in order

Any of us can name:

Once - Mercury,

Two - Venus,

Three - Earth,

Four - Mars.

Five - Jupiter

Six - Saturn,

Seven - Uranus,

Behind him is Neptune.

He is the eighth in a row.

And after him, then,

And the ninth planet

Called Pluto.

Jupiter is the largest planet. If you imagine it in the form of a watermelon, then in comparison with it Pluto will look like a pea.

To help children remember all the planets better, read the poem and let them remember it. You can sculpt planets from plasticine, draw them, or cut them out of paper and attach them to a lamp at home, for example.

You can see our space crafts made from plasticine

Children about space

Astronomers

Scientists who observe and study stars are called astronomers.

Previously, people did not know anything about space, about the stars and believed that the sky was a cap that covered the Earth, and the stars were attached to it. Ancient people thought that the Earth was motionless, and the Sun and Moon revolved around it.

Many years later, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus proved that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. Newton understood why the planets revolve around the Sun and do not fall. They all fly around the Sun in their own way.

This is how scientists discovered the secrets of space. In the Middle Ages, a telescope was invented, with which scientists observed the stars.

There are still many mysteries in space, so astronomers will have enough work to do for a long time.

Animal astronauts

To find out what a person will have to face in space, scientists sent animals for “reconnaissance.” There were dogs, rabbits, mice, even microbes.

Dogs are smarter animals than mice, but not all dogs were suitable for testing. Purebred dogs are very gentle, they were not suitable for space. The dogs were selected by size, trained with them, accustomed to noise and shaking. Ordinary mongrels came closest.

The first dog, Laika, was sent into space in 1957. She was observed, but she did not return to Earth.

Then Belka and Strelka flew into space. In 1960, on August 19, they were launched into space on the prototype of the Vostok spacecraft. They stayed in space for more than a day and returned safely.

So scientists proved that space flight is possible.

About astronauts for children

An astronaut is a person who tests space technology and works in space. Now there are astronauts in many countries.

The first cosmonaut was Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. On April 12, 1961, he flew into space on the Vostok-1 spacecraft and circled the Earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes. Came back alive and healthy.

Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsky district, Smolensk region, into an ordinary family of a collective farmer. I grew up as an ordinary child. In his youth, he was interested in classes at the flying club. After college he became a pilot. In 1959, he was enrolled in the group of cosmonaut candidates. And for his first flight into space he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin.

Yuri Gagarin will always remain in our memory as the first cosmonaut. Cities, streets, and avenues are named after him. There is a crater on the Moon named after him, as well as a minor planet.

Cosmonauts are courageous people, they train a lot, they must know and be able to do a lot in order to control a spaceship.

The first spacewalk was made by Alexei Leonov in 1965. And the first female cosmonaut was Valentina Tereshkova, who flew into space in 1963. She withstood 48 revolutions around the Earth, spent almost three days in space, and took photographs that were used to study the aerosol layers of the atmosphere.

To fly into space, you need to study a lot and study well, be persistent, patient, and enduring.

Moon

Children always look at the Moon in the sky with interest. It is so different: sometimes it is sickle-shaped, sometimes it is large and round.

The child will be interested to know what is on the Moon. You can say that the Moon is covered with crater craters that arise due to collisions with asteroids. If you look at the Moon through binoculars, you can see the unevenness of its relief.

Stargazing with kids

You should watch the starry sky with your children. Take the time to go outside in the evening and admire the stars. Show your child some constellations, try to find the Big Dipper together. Tell us that ancient people peered into the night sky, mentally connected the stars, drew animals, people, objects, and mythological heroes. Find a star chart and show your child what the constellations look like, and then together find them in the sky. This develops observation and memory.

In general, it would be great to take your child to a planetarium if you have one in your city. The child will learn a lot of interesting things from the story about stars and planets.

We don’t have a planetarium in the city, you just need to go to another city.

The space theme contains a lot of ideas for drawings and crafts. You can draw, sculpt astronauts, aliens, the Moon. Come up with new names for stars and planets. In general, use your imagination, the theme of space is limitless and interesting for children.

Here are Yulina's drawings on a space theme.

Games on the theme "Space" for children

You can play games with children. I suggest some games that you can play.

Game "What will we take with us into space."

Lay out the drawings in front of the children and ask them to choose what they can take with them on the spaceship. These can be the following pictures: a book, a notebook, a spacesuit, an apple, candy, a tube of semolina, an alarm clock, a sausage.

Game "Space Dictionary" will help children expand their vocabulary with words related to the theme of space. You can play with several children and arrange a competition to see who can name the most words related to space. For example: satellite, rocket, alien, planets, Moon, Earth, astronaut, spacesuit, etc.

Game "Say the opposite".

Teach children to choose words with opposite meanings. Yulia and I played these games, she was pretty good at naming antonyms correctly.

Distant -…

cramped -…

big -…

get up -…

fly away -...

high -…

famous -…

include -…

dark -…

Tell your children about space, astronauts, learn the names of the planets, look at the starry sky. Let the child grow up curious, and what if he also later becomes a scientist or astronaut and you will be proud of him.

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How much does a space suit cost and how does it work? How to calculate the force of gravity between celestial bodies and at what speed does the Milky Way galaxy rotate? How old is the Universe and what will happen if you fall into a black hole? You can find answers to these and a number of other questions in this collection of facts about space.

Cygnus, in the Constellation Cygnus, is a very large star in the known universe - a hypergiant. It is almost a million times larger than the Sun.

The planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel, who wanted to name the planet George, after King George III, but Uranus was ultimately chosen.

The first rockets were made 1000 years ago in China.

Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-propellant rocket engine in 1926.

More than 100 artificial satellites are currently launched into space every year. Some of them are space telescopes.

The lower a satellite's orbit, the faster it must fly to avoid falling to Earth. Most satellites fly in low orbits - 300 km from Earth.

Hipparchus was the first astronomer to try to figure out the distance to the Sun.

Mars' red color is due to oxidized (rusty) iron on its surface.

Jupiter does not have a surface for spacecraft to land on because it is composed primarily of helium and hydrogen. Jupiter's gravity compresses hydrogen so tightly that it turns into a liquid.

The first successful planetary space probe was Mariner 2, which flew past Venus in 1962.

Voyager 2 has flown 6000000000 km and is moving out of the solar system after passing close to Neptune in 1989.

To save fuel on missions to distant planets, space probes can use the gravity of neighboring planets to eject. It's called a slingshot.

Hubble's Law showed that the Universe becomes everything. This led to the idea of ​​the Big Bang.

Early astronomers thought that regular pulses from deep space could be signals from aliens, and pulsars were jokingly called LGMs (short for Little Green Men).

Pulsars probably arose as a result of a supernova explosion, which is why most of them are located in the plane of the Milky Way disk.

Even primitive people focused their attention on the night sky, trying to figure out what kind of luminous points were there. Some thought that gods lived in the sky, others believed that creatures unknown to man lived in the heavens, and even until now, man has not developed a full understanding of what the cosmos really is.

As a rule, interesting facts about space are always in the spotlight, attracting many readers around the world. The riddles and secrets of the Universe leave almost none of us indifferent. Do extraterrestrial civilizations exist? How long does it take to get to the nearest galaxy? Why do stars sparkle in different colors?

Agree, everyone wants to know the answers to such questions, regardless of gender, age, or social status. This section of our portal contains interesting scientific articles about space that will expand your imagination and immerse you in the world of the mysterious, mysterious, and unimaginable.

Scientific articles about space fromKvant.Space

Modern science, which was formed in the 20th century, developed very dynamically, presenting new incredible discoveries, starting with the invention of a conventional battery and ending with landing a man on the moon. However, all this was just the beginning, just a drop in the ocean of knowledge that awaits humanity ahead. As for space exploration, it has become even more rapid in the 21st century. The invention of super-powerful telescopes has given man the opportunity to see other galaxies with stars and planetary systems. The curtain of secrecy about the origin of the Universe was lifted by mathematicians, physicists, astronomers and other scientific figures of our time.

The mysteries of the Universe, the big bang theory, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence - all this is of interest not only to specialists exploring outer space. This information will be of interest to everyone, so the portal site provides you with scientific articles about space, including theories of the origin of matter, descriptions of cosmic bodies, assessment of distances in outer space and much more. People are wrong to think that scientific articles are written by scientists for their colleagues. They contain information that expands our worldview. Scientific articles about space are never boring, because this is a very broad topic that includes a lot of interesting points.

Why do lovers like to sit under the starry sky at night? The answer is simple - the night sky is incomparable to any decor. You don't have to go far in pursuit of romance. Look at the sky at night. The stars that are scattered on it like luminous peas are so different from each other. The colorful twinkling of stars, the mesmerizing bright traces of meteorite falls - could anything be more romantic? It would be great to know more about all this. Unfortunately, our imagination is not capable of unraveling all the secrets of space; even the brightest “minds” in the world cannot do this. But science does not stand still. Every day new discoveries of space objects are made, various hypotheses and theories are confirmed and refuted. Scientific articles about space published on the site are written based on the works of famous scientists who have completely devoted themselves to uncovering the mysteries of the Universe.

The launch of the Hubble Telescope into Earth orbit in 1990 helped astronomers see galaxies billions of light years away from Earth. The images taken by this most powerful telescope of our time not only make it possible to see space objects, but also to analyze the development of the Universe.

How scientific articles about space are created

Numerous news from distant worlds provide us with the most valuable information about the Universe. However, all this would be just a set of facts if a person could not analyze them, compare them with each other, find certain connections and patterns, and know how to think, reflect and draw conclusions. It was the human mind that helped create wonderful tools and devices that capture and decipher information from space. But not all phenomena from the surrounding world can be observed. Moreover, not every event in space that we observe comes from another that is already known to us. Thus, scientific theory comes to the aid of scientists. Thanks to its application, it becomes possible to reveal the relationship between various processes and phenomena, restore missing links, predict new facts, and study problems that cannot be solved by observations or measurements alone. It is the use of theory that indicates the path for further research, poses primary tasks for scientists, concentrating their efforts in certain areas, and aims at establishing certain facts.

The existence of a theory without observational data and facts is impossible. Without them, it would only be empty logical exercises, solutions to speculative problems that do not contain any valuable information about the world around us. It would be a simple kaleidoscope without a theoretical basis and without elucidation of the laws governing the facts, which would be of little use to researchers of the Universe. Observations together with theoretical research are two twin brothers who cannot live in modern science, one without the other.

Theoretical research in modern astronomy is very diverse in nature. Here you can find statistical calculations, mathematical calculations, and bold guesses along with original hypotheses.

On our portal site you can find a variety of scientific articles about space. You will learn hypotheses of the origin of matter, meet descriptions of planets, galaxies, stars, nebulae and comets, and become familiar with the works of the world's leading astrophysicists and mathematicians exploring outer space.

Basically, a scientific article is written based on observations made. When it comes to observing cosmic bodies, it is worth understanding that capturing light cosmic rays coming from space is only half the battle. These rays still need to be recorded. For many years, astronomers did this in a very primitive way: they looked through the eyepiece of a telescope, and then simply redrew what they saw and wrote down the results of their observations.

However, human eyes tend to succumb to fatigue. Several hours of continuous observation noticeably dull visual acuity and reduce the accuracy of perception. Therefore, when conducting research, astronomers use the photography method instead of tedious visual observations. Modern cameras make it possible to automate the process of space exploration. Scientific articles about space, which you can read in this section of our portal, are supported by real photographs of space objects.

Recent science has indeed brought us many brilliant discoveries.

In just a few decades, we have invented powerful computers and can now work with gigantic amounts of information.

Thanks to the invention of super-powerful engines, man was able to overcome the force of gravity and escape into outer space. In 1961, a person was able to see with his own eyes that the Earth is really a ball. And before that, everything was only at the level of assumptions, hypotheses and theories. Scientists are racking their brains to find confirmation of their theories. There is still so much that is unexplained in space! New patterns are being discovered, new bodies are being given their own names. Further, they become the subject of discussions at meetings of scientists and scientific conferences. In general, the topic “space” is difficult to understand. After all, we have to talk about those objects that are located at a great distance. If a person was still able to reach the Moon and collect samples of its surface, then other celestial bodies are still inaccessible. Therefore, their description will be based only on materials obtained by the telescope. Scientific articles about space are useful for people of any age. They are interesting to read to children who are able to instantly absorb large amounts of information. They will also be of interest to adults, regardless of their profession. After reading such a text, there is always something to think about.

How many people - so many opinions. When you read a hypothesis, you can either agree with it or not. Basically, articles on space topics do not contain reliable data. Conclusions are based only on the reasoning of scientists involved in the study of a particular phenomenon. It is not easy to describe something that cannot be seen at close range, cannot be touched and examined from all sides. This is the difficulty of the work of astrophysicists. Using images alone, they must draw conclusions about the distance to the cosmic body, its temperature, physical state and many other factors. Space is a scientific topic that has no beginning or end. After all, the Universe contains many galaxies, stars, planets and nebulae, each of which is the subject of new scientific research. The only question is how quickly technologies will become available to people to help them reach these objects over a short distance. The plots of science fiction films tell how people will travel from planet to planet in a few hundred years. We can’t say that all this is the imagination of the pen, because over the last century science has made a leap forward, covering almost all areas of our lives. One way or another, the issue of space colonization, although not an urgent need, is raised not only by science fiction writers, but also by scientists. Some of them put forward bold theories that humans can colonize Mars, others are looking in neighboring galaxies for a planet with an atmosphere similar to Earth that could be suitable for life.

It cannot be said that space is something far from us, something that does not affect us in any way. Solar flares cause magnetic storms on Earth, which affects human well-being. During this same period, the likelihood of failure of household appliances increases.

Humanity should be interested in the theme of space, because it is from there that the greatest risk of the destruction of civilization comes. At the scientific level, little is said about this, although some theories say that dinosaurs died precisely as a result of the collision of the Earth and a large cosmic body. “Messengers of the Universe”, which sometimes enter the atmospheric space of our planet, are fraught with a hidden threat. Since this problem concerns all inhabitants of the Earth, states must make every effort to pursue a peaceful policy of space exploration with elements of commonwealth.

Man has achieved significant results in the exploration of outer space. However, much remains undisclosed and unconfirmed. Space exploration will never lose its relevance, because it makes it possible to determine by what laws the Universe developed, where did life on Earth come from, and can it exist anywhere else? Our website offers a collection of scientific articles about space, in which famous “minds” of our time express their thoughts on issues in this area. Perhaps in the near future we will receive a clear and clear answer to what the Universe and space are, where it all came from. At the present time, the Big Bang Theory is very popular, which explains the principle of the origin of matter in the Universe. Scientists are finding more and more evidence of this theory, supporting their reasoning with laboratory experiments.

Every day humanity becomes more and more interested in space. We realize that we are highly dependent on the ongoing processes in the Universe. We want to understand how the Universe works, although this is hardly possible. Let's look forward to new interesting discoveries that can make our lives easier, better and more comfortable.

What do we know about space? Most of us cannot answer the simplest questions about this mysterious world, which, despite this, attracts and interests us. This article presents the most interesting general information about space, which will be useful for everyone to know.

• We (all living beings) fly in the space environment at a certain speed, which is 530 km/second. If we take into account the speed of our Earth’s movement in the galaxy, it is equal to 225 km/second. Our galaxy (Milky Way), in turn, moves through space at a speed of 305 km/second.

• A giant space object, the planet Saturn, actually has a relatively small weight. The density of this giant planet is a couple of times lower than that of water. Thus, if you try to drown this cosmic body in water, this will not work.
• If the planet Jupiter were hollow, then all the known planets of our “Solar” planetary system could fit inside it.
• Reducing the frequency of rotation of the planet-Earth will move the Moon away from it by approximately four centimeters every year.
• The first “star catalog” was compiled by Hipparchus (an astronomer) in 150 BC.

• When we look at the most distant (faint) stars in the night sky, we see them as they were approximately fourteen billion years ago.
• In addition to our star, we have another nearby star, Prosky Centauri. The distance to this space object is equal to 4.2 light years.
• The "red giant" named "Betelgeuse" has a huge diameter. For comparison, its diameter is a couple of times greater than the orbit of our Earth around the star.
• Every year, the galaxy in which our planetary system is located produces about 40 new stars.
• If one teaspoon (teaspoon) of the substance is removed from the “neutron star”, then the weight of this spoon will be equal to 150 tons.

• The mass of our star is more than 99% of the mass of its entire planetary system.
• The age of the light emitted by our luminary can be equated to only 30 thousand years. It was thirty thousand years ago that a certain energy was formed in the star, which reaches the Earth to this day. By the way, solar photons reach the above-mentioned planet on which we live in just eight seconds.
• The eclipse of our star can last no more than seven and a half minutes. The lunar eclipse, in turn, has a longer duration - 104 minutes.
• The “solar wind” is the cause of the loss of mass of our star. In 1 second, this star loses more than 1 billion kg due to this “wind”. By the way, one “windy particle” can destroy an ordinary person by approaching him at a distance of 160 kilometers.
• If our Earth rotated in a different, opposite direction, then the length of the year would be shorter by a couple of days.
• Every day our planet experiences a “meteor bombardment”. Why don't we see this? Most of the space objects falling on us are very small, so they do not have time to reach the surface and dissolve in our atmosphere.

• Our planet has more than one satellite. Modern scientists have determined that four objects are flying around it at once. Of course, the most famous of them is the Moon. Besides it, there is an asteroid flying around us (diameter 5 kilometers), which was discovered in 1896. To be more precise, this object rotates around the star, but with a certain frequency, the same as ours. That's why he is always near us. It is impossible to see it with the naked eye.
• The condensation of “cosmic matter” is the reason for the periodic increase in the mass of our planet. Every 500 years its mass increases by about one billion tons.
• Ursa Major is not a constellation, as many people believe. In reality, this is an “asterism” - a visual cluster of stars that are quite impressively distant from each other. Some Ursa Ursa stars are even located in different galactic formations.

Initially, the planet Uranus, discovered by W. Herschel in 1781, was called “George’s Star.” This was ordered by George III, who wanted the last discovered planet of the “Solar System” to be named after him.

If two parts of a meteorite come into contact in outer space, they are welded together. If this happens on our native planet, then they will not unite, since on our planet it is common for metals to oxidize. The equipment that astronauts use while working outside the space station spontaneously oxidizes on Earth, so it does not stick together in space.

Satellite vehicles created by engineers during their flight in space are subject to certain physical laws, which were first described by Newton.

Since 1980, areas of our companion, the Moon, have been officially sold, and they cost a lot. To date, about seven percent of the natural satellite's surface has been sold. The cost of forty acres now is no more than $150. The lucky person who bought the plot receives a certificate and photographs of his “lunar land”.

• In 1992, the official couple Jen and Mark went into space. To this day, they are considered the first and only spouses to visit space together. The couple flew into space on the ship Endever.
• All those who have been in space for a certain time (1-2 months) grow by about five centimeters due to spinal stretching, which then, after returning to Earth, can negatively affect their health.
• A satellite orbital system can photograph three million square kilometers of the Earth in half an hour, an airplane in twelve years, a person manually in approximately 100 years.
• In 2001, they conducted an interesting experiment, after which they found out that astronauts who snore at home in outer space lose this bad habit.