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I obsereved triple rainbow recently - what an amazing spectacle! Unfortunatelly my phone had low battery and I wasn't able to take picture and I was just standing and enjoying that view! This year it rains much more often, that is why I see rainbows almost everyday

This thread beckoned me with its name, but I didn't find anything strange here. I don't know what I expected to see (little green men? ) but I enjoyed comments

It is interesting to follow up researches of exoplanets. But that's a pity that nowadays we can't reach them and make more precise investigations....

Interesting article, thanks! And I added images from there to my gallery I can not stop rejoicing in the fact that now humanity has the opportunity to look so far into the vastness of space.

Judging from the latest missions - all we can discover on Mars in sense of "life" - the smallest microorganisms but there is one problem: how to distinguish bacteries from Earth that came with equipment and ones from Mars? Nasa and its engineers in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have ...

Thank you for references, starsurfer! I will never be tired of admiring fascinating views of Nebulas, satr clusters and other beautiful objects in space. It is impressive and magic at the same time.

Ann, you are right - the look very similar, but still outstanding! I will never stop admiring the beauty of Nebulas! My favorites are: The Ring Nebula, Cat's Eye Nebula , the Helix Nebula

And 1 more interesting fact about Venus is that it is often mistaken for a UFO. The planet is so bright that after sunset it can be observed even in gloomy weather. Venus appears in the sky before the stars, and passing clouds sometimes create the illusion of a bright cosmic body moving across the s...

I want to add some more interesting facts about Mercury: Mercury has a faint comet-like tail, two and a half million kilometers long. There are clouds at the poles of Mercury. The largest crater on its surface, the Zhara Plain, has a diameter of about one and a half thousand kilometers. One of the e...

I always was curious about life in ISS, also I have a dream once to try at least to try what it is like to be without gravity. Thank you for interesting facts and references. ALso I found out recently "How to keep spacesuit ‘underwear’ clean?". informative about usual things for us: https:...

Such a great picture! It is hard to believe that nowadays it is posssible to take photo of another planet! I admire scientists thanks to whom we can enjoy such views nowadays!

Even though a lot of time past since those lectures - it is still useful to watch and listen it. Nice to know that there are people here who enjoys it and share here with everyone who is interested in it.

Pleiades star cluster is my favourite one! When the weather allows I try to find it in the night sky and can't hide my excitment! Thank you for adding such wonderful lectures it is always pleasant to find out something new and useful.

Thank you all for your recommendations! I really liked Star Walk 2 and NASA Visualization Explorer - I spended an hour exploring the space

Mount Olympus on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system at 27.4 kilometers.The largest volcano in the solar system with a diameter of six hundred kilometers is also located on Mars.

Neptune was discovered in 1846. He became the first planet to be discovered through mathematical calculations, and not through observation. The planet's blue color is due to the presence of small amounts of methane in the outer layers of the atmosphere. However, Neptune's neighbor, Uranus, has a blu...

Oh, sorry, you are right I used wrong word. I meant "subsoil" - what is there is under the earth's surface... Just wanted to explain in simple language. And some more information concerning one of the numerous Saturn's moons. Yapet surprises with its bizarre color: one half is bright like ...

Some more facts about Uranus: it became the first planet discovered with a telescope. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1781 using a telescope of his own design. After 2 years, it was found that this is a planet, and not a comet or star, as previously thought. And the chemical element uranium...

What about Saturn's rings, their nature? There are few theories about it but I prefer the latest one which appeared after Cassini approached the giant. According to the new model, that happened due to several successive absorptions by Saturn of its satellites, billions of years ago, orbiting the you...

"300 km above the surface" most be amazing spectacle if you are somewhere close :) And what about another moon of Jupiter - Callisto? As a child I was fond of Greek mythology and I remember the story of the character after whom the second largest moon of Jupiter was named. The girl took a ...

Amazing video which shows how mighty the nature is! Thank you, I really enjoyed watching it, especially Nothern lights near Canada and Southern lights near Great Australian Bight. It is my dream to watch such lights with my own eyes one day(no matter from Earth surface or from above

Venus' solid surface is a volcanic landscape covered with extensive plains featuring high volcanic mountains and vast ridged plateaus. Source: NASA And the highest mountain on Venus, Maxwell Montes, is about 20,000 feet high (8.8 kilometers), similar to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest....

Here is additional information about mountains on Io : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_of_Io#:~:text=Mountains%20are%20widely%20distributed%20across,6%2C300%20m%20(20%2C700%20ft). There you can find that the highest mountain on its surface reaches 17,5 km (Boösaule Montes, at 17,500 metres (...

The most well-known facts about Jupiter were already mentioned here so I wanted to add some information about its moons. For example Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and generally the largest in the system. Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury. And Europa, the moon of Jupiter, is believ...

Thank you for brief and comprehensive information about Mercury :ssmile: I became interested in space exploration since I was 10 and wanted to add one more fact about the smallest planet in Solar System that I remember from childhood: many people think that Mercury is the hottest planet in the solar...