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...