Astronomy

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Welcome to the Universeis a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by t...

The book is addressed to a wide range of readers who want to begin observing the starry sky using accessible means - using binoculars, a telescope or a small...

Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg's monumental monograph summarizes the progress made in modern cosmology over the past two decades. It is unique in the scope o...

Did the USSR lose the “moon race” to the USA? Why were American astronauts the first to land on the Moon, ahead of Soviet cosmonauts? Could it have been othe...

On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion time...

This is the first book in Russian, almost entirely devoted to the cooling relics of stars, known as white dwarfs. But the fate of almost all stars, except th...

The article was written as a response to the Swiss edition of the book “Aliens” by Americans Doris and David Jones. The book, which describes the possible ap...

The picture of the Universe in scientific books on cosmology and in science fiction looks completely different. “Mastered” by science fiction writers, Space ...

The author describes his attitude to the UFO phenomenon. For this purpose he uses four groups of arguments, which can be conditionally classified as factual,...

This book tells in a popular form about new discoveries, ideas and hypotheses in the field of studying double stars. The sequence of presentation corresponds...

Nina Mikhailovna Subbotina (1877–1961) can rightfully be called the Stephen Hawking of Russian science. One of the first Russian women astronomers, she recei...