Europa is the celestial body with the smoothest surface in the solar system🌑

✨Jupiter's satellite is entirely covered by an ocean with a thick crust of ice on its surface. Underneath that ice lies roughly 2-3 times as much water as on our planet.

Some scientists believe the ocean waters of Europa may be hot enough for complex life to develop on the satellite✨
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Prague Astronomical Clock Chimes

✨The astronomical clock face was created in Prague back in 1410. What is surprising, the clock is the third oldest astronomical clock in the world. And it still works today.

⏱The dial shows Babylonian, Central European, Old Bohemian and sidereal time. Other indications show the position of the Sun among the zodiac signs and the current lunar phase✨
#PragueChimes
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What would happen if a black hole with the size of a coin appeared on Earth?

✨It would take at least 5 billion years for such a black hole to completely swallow the Earth.

Surely, the Earth would fall in complete chaos and the black hole would turn into a wisp of lava, a mixture of gases, a collapsing crust, and everything else in just a few days
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Jupiter's polar lights

✨Jupiter has the most extensive magnetosphere with powerful radiation belts, allowing it to produce fireworks of auroras.

⚡️However, only space telescopes and orbiting spacecraft can see them, as their maximum value falls on the ultraviolet and infrared ranges.

Unlike our planet, where auroras depend on the activity of the Sun, on Jupiter they never stop and only vary in intensity✨
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The Sun is getting brighter every year

✨Within 3.5 billion years its brightness is expected to increase by 40% and its radius will be 256 times larger than it is today.

Such a catastrophe leads to the complete disappearance of water from the surface of the Earth and ultimately destroys all forms of life.

By then, conditions on our planet will be similar to those on Venus today✨

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The Great Dark Spot on Neptune

✨Its size is comparable to the size of Earth and resembles the Great Red Spot of Jupiter

It was discovered in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Both the Great Dark Spot of Neptune and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter are anticyclones.

Wind speeds reached supersonic speeds of 2,400 km/h around the spot, which was the highest in the entire Solar System. It is believed that the spot was a hole in the methane clouds of Neptune✨

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The greatest geomagnetic storm in history

✨On September 1 to 2, 1859, the largest geomagnetic storm ever caused by a solar flare occurred.

During the storm telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed; auroras were observed throughout the world, even over the Caribbean✨

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Where lies the center of the Universe?

✨According to the cosmological principle - all points of the Universe on large scales are equal.

Thus, neither the center nor the edge of the Universe exists. Or, perhaps, we could say it differently: the Universe has a center everywhere✨

#UniverseCenter
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The Earth's core is slowly freezing 🌎

✨And from that gradually crystallizes: the diameter of the inner solid core increases by a few centimeters per century✨

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The Carina Nebula extends more than 300 light years

✨It's one of the largest areas of star formation in the Milky Way

On a dark night, this nebula is easy to spot in the sky, even with the naked eye. Yet only visible in the southern hemisphere, as it lies 60 degrees south of the celestial equator✨

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The temperature "inside the lightning" can reach 30,000 kelvin

✨Whereas the temperature on the surface of the Sun is only 6,000 Kelvin (5,700º C).

Yet one cannot claim that lightning is hotter than the Sun, as the layer of the luminary is the coldest one. The plasma inside the Sun attains a temperature of about 15 million kelvin, while the Sun's atmosphere is 500,000 kelvin✨

#Lightning
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NASA has decided to extend the Ingenuity drone mission until September 2022!

✨The vehicle is currently making a series of flights toward the ancient Mars River Delta. Ingenuity will be used to conduct aerial reconnaissance and survey objects beyond the rover's reach✨


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Young Mars featured a dense atmosphere and water resources💦

✨Yet, over the past billions of years, the Red Planet has lost much of both its gas envelope and its hydrosphere.

Nevertheless, Mars has still managed to retain some water in the form of subsurface ice deposits. Data collected by spacecraft suggest that they are much more widespread than previously thought.

According to some estimates, up to one-third of the planet contains hidden deposits of water ice✨

#Mars
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