Before the Big Bang, there was nothing ?

According to Stephen Hawking, if this were true, the universe "would have been neither created nor destroyed. It just would have been." The scary part: if there was nothing before the Big Bang, how long did it last before the universe came into existence?

A heart-shaped spot has appeared on the Sun, slightly smaller than our Earth. The last time this happened was more than eight years ago.

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The first manned launch of the new reusable Starliner spacecraft took place in the USA

The launch of the Atlas-5 carrier rocket took place on 5 June from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome. Broadcast was conducted in the YouTube channel of NASA.

The new ship should deliver to the International Space Station astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams. They are expected to spend about 25 hours in transit.

After arriving at the ISS, they will spend about a week on the station conducting spacecraft tests before returning to Earth for a landing in the United States.

NASA will build a railway on the moon

FLOAT ("Flexible Levitation on Rails") will be a rail track made of magnetic robomodules hovering above a three-layer film track. Carriages will be able to move along it at a speed of 1.6 km/h and transport up to 100 tonnes of materials per day. Launch is promised as early as the 2030s

? ? China has announced the successful landing of its Chang'e-6 probe on the back side of the Moon

The apparatus is equipped with a drill and a robotic arm, and will collect soil samples on the moon after landing.

Xinhua News Agency notes that if the mission is successful, China will become the first country in the world to deliver samples from the Moon's back side to Earth.

On the 3rd of June, you will be able to see the "big Planet Parade"

At this time 6 planets will line up in a straight line and will be visible in the sky. Mars, Mercury and Jupiter can be seen with the naked eye, and the rest - with a telescope. The key is to start observing an hour before dawn.

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Astronomers have discovered a planet whose existence was previously thought impossible?

The discovery of the exoplanet LHS 3154b was announced in the journal Science.
The mass of LHS 3154b is 13 times greater than Earth's, and its star - a cold dwarf LHS 3154 - is nine times smaller than the Sun. According to current theory, the star would have to be at least 10 times larger to give birth to such a large planet.