Новости за 21.10.2015

Venus has been dominating the morning sky for the past two months, and Monday (Oct. 26), it will form a vivid tableau with Jupiter and Mars as it reaches its farthest point from the sun.

A tidal disruption was detected using multiple orbiting observatories by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in Nov. 2014. The event occurred in galaxy PGC 043234 about 290 million light years away from Earth.

Scott Kelly officially broke the record for the most time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut on Oct. 13th. 2015, surpassing Mike Finke's record 381 days. The president called to congratulate him on the achievement on Oct. 19.

Astronomers group stars into classes according to spectral color and brightness.

The planet-destroying Death Star from "Star Wars" may be fictional, but a star at the end of its life and only a bit bigger than Earth could be its real-world twin: the star is currently destroying and disintegrating an orbiting planet bit by bit.

It's a make-out session on a cosmic scale: Two incredibly hot stars, spinning in a tight orbit around one another, appear to be "kissing." But the pair won't be kissing for long: They appear to be headed toward a cataclysmic demise.

Today, the White House is marking “Back to the Future Day” with a series of conversations with innovators across the country.

160,000 light years away, the Tarantula Nebula houses many young, hot stars. But the weirdest is probably the "over-contact" binary named VFTS 352 whose two huge, hot surfaces are touching as they dance rapidly around.

The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak just before dawn Thursday morning (Oct. 22). If clouds or light pollution inhibit your view, you can watch the shower online here at Space.com beginning at 10 p.m. EDT tonight, courtesy of NASA.

The massive asteroid 2015 TB145, also known as "Spooky," will come within 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) of the planet on Oct. 31, just three weeks after the space rock was discovered.

Scientists with ESA's Rosetta mission named two surface features on comet 67P/C-G for scientists from the mission team who recently passed away.

Hoverboards, self-lacing sneakers and flying cars may still largely be the stuff of science fiction, but at least one DeLorean has taken off to "where we don't need roads" thanks to NASA, Lockheed Martin and a star from the original "Back to the Future" m

In this artist's conception, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft enters Mars' atmosphere.