Asteroids and comets: where do they come from, what determines the trajectory of their flight, and can we sleep peacefully during a meteor shower? Today in the program "Nature of Things" we are talking about this with astronomer Ilgmars Eglitis .
There are deep connections between our main luminary - the Sun and the Earth, which scientists are still studying . Take solar wind for example. What does the sun emit? When and how does it happen? Why and where is this wind moving? How does it affect the Earth and interstellar space? Should we be afraid of him, or vice versa - rejoice that he exists?
Astronomers have been studying neutron stars for decades, but there are still many blind spots in their nature . These are the densest and "gravitationally saturated" objects in the known universe . Their hypergravity is so strong that, for example, only one piece of sugar from the substance of a neutron star will weigh 100 million tons on our planet, which is approximately equal to