Blog about astronomy

Mythological history of the moon The moon in Roman mythology is the goddess of night light. In the Egyptian mythology the goddess of the moon - Tefnut and her sister Shu - one of the embodiments of the solar beginning, were twins. In the Indo-European and Baltic mythology the motive of the courtship of month for the sun and their weddings are widely extended: after wedding the month leaves the sun for what to it the god-Thunderer avenges and cuts off the month in half. In Armenian mythology, Lusin ("moon"), a young boy, asked his mother holding a dough for a bun...

The scientific research of the nature of man could not be limited to a simple contemplation of the world around him and abstract logical reasoning about his possible structure. To open regularities of these or those phenomena, to study the structure of natural objects, people needed, first of all, observations and experiments. The first, initial stage of any research is observation, the second, most effective way is experiment. That is why it is not surprising that the human being's cognition of...

The history of the world around us, the history of the universe - is a matter that has worried humanity from the earliest stages of knowledge. Myths and religious teachings suggest their "cosmological systems", their theories of evolution of the universe. The evolution of the Universe, starting with the Big Bang, is considered as a joint development of micro- and macro phenomena, including the processes of differentiation and complication in micro- and macro-evolution. Our Universe participates in...

With the invention of radio telescopes, for example, astronomers can "peek" at distances that in the 1940s seemed inaccessible. However, it is necessary to clearly imagine the immense magnitude of this journey and the enormous difficulties we will still face on our way to the stars One of the most important and complex in astronomy is the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies. Since the seventeenth century, when Galileo saw the Milky Way in the telescope, his most important goal was to study astronomers...

Many bourgeois scholars - sociologists, ecologists, philosophers, economists - have a rather pessimistic view. They see almost the only way to stop at all any development of terrestrial civilization, growth of production and consumption, to prevent further increase of the population. It's no wonder that such extreme pessimism upset some people by pushing them into the ghostly world of religious hope. Moreover, the specific recommendations for the practical implementation of the aforementioned measures are often truly terrifying...

Astrology has an ancient history. For many centuries the development of astronomy has been a by-product of astrological activity. Astrology fashion has come to our time: astrological horoscopes are an...

The atmosphere is composed of about 21% of oxygen, vital for humans and animals. This amount of oxygen is maintained as a result of the photosynthesis process that occurs under the influence of sunlight in the green leaf of plants and algae, as well as due to the vital activity of certain types of bacteria and germs. In the Earth's atmosphere, there is a layer of ozone, which plays an extremely important role in all living things because it delays the life-threatening ultraviolet radiation of the sun...

Long centuries have gone by to find out what shape our planet is, and from naive biblical ideas to come to a conclusion about the sphericity of the Earth. But if this problem were to come before science for the first time today, it would be solved in just a few hours. To do this, it would be sufficient to photograph the Earth from the spacecraft from different points of space and compare the images obtained with each other. This example, among other things, shows how the emergence of new research methods greatly speeds up the process of knowing the world...

Matter is endlessly diverse. The material world is a myriad of objects, phenomena, events, processes, relationships, and relationships. To reach them all without exception, that is to know all matter at once, science is incapable, at least for the obvious reason, that the moment when man began to study the outside world is far from today to a finite interval of time. Therefore, science at any level of its development is able to capture and actually cover only a certain range of phenomena, processes, relationships, and relationships...

Throughout the history of the observable universe, we find absolutely nothing that directly or indirectly testifies to the theological claims of the existence of supernatural forces, supernatural principles, or supernatural creatures. Our galaxy is a giant star island that includes the sun. The vast majority of galaxy stars, estimated at over 200 billion today, are concentrated in the flat disk we see in the sky as a luminous lane of the Milky Way, as well as in spiral branches. In the center of...

Often, students ask how to explain the fact that some scholars in the West who are well known for their scientific discoveries are religious people? Moreover, some religiously minded scholars claim that the study of the universe proves the existence of a god. Yes, the English astrophysicist E. Milne wrote: "In my explanation, the universe is inseparable from what we would like to portray as the visible creation of the Divine Creator ... You can say when you want us to discover God in the Universe...

When studying space phenomena, astronomers think first of all about Earth. This is especially true of studies of other planets in the solar system that allow us to better understand our own cosmic home It is often argued that science does not give us credible knowledge about the world, that its conclusions seem to be unreliable. In this connection, we will consider the question of the credibility of those scientific data about the universe, which are one of the most important elements of the modern scientific picture of the world...