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On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Greenwich Observatory was laid

When late night sets in, countless flickering beacons appear in the dark sky. Those stars were “looking” at Earth top-down millions of years ago. Today we will describe how these cosmic “fireflies” are born

On July 3^rd, 1835, construction of the main building of Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory began

In this interview, Ildar Khabibullin told us about how to observe the black holes, what make them interesting, and why observing them is similar to watching the past

Are the residents of Earth protected from asteroids? The opinion of Boris Shustov, head of Expert Working Group for Space Threats under the Space Council of RAS

On May 29, 1919, Arthur Eddington recorded a total solar eclipse on camera

On May 19, 1910 the Earth met with Halley’s Comet

The space flight of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin marked the start of space research

The weight of spacecraft amounted to 410 kg 

Twice a year, people all over the world are called for looking at the stars. The Astronomy Day is marked in spring and fall: in 2021 it falls on May 15 and October 9 

Moisey Markov put forward the idea of registering neutrino in natural water basins. The same idea laid the foundation for creation of Baikal underwater neutrino telescope 

The employees of Dzhelepov nuclear problems laboratory at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research produced a popular-science film about Baikal neutrino telescope.

A crater on the Moon and cosmological model were named as a tribute to him – 149th anniversary of Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter’s birthday.