Day: December 21, 2021

The scattered cluster NGC 1755 in the constellation Goldfish looks a bit like a pinch of salt scattered on a black tablecloth. This beautiful shining object in the Large Magellanic Cloud next to our galaxy was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although NGC 1755 has an impressive size – 120 light-years wide — it belongs to small star clusters containing young stars. But giant globular clusters can contain millions of old stars. Hubble is studying NGC 1755 to better understand how different populations of stars can coexist in the same cluster. It is convenient to observe this object, since it is relatively close. New Year’s sale: discounts up to – 60% Anna Lysenko Even more interesting things about nature

“In the Russian Federation, 41 cases of infection with a new gene variant of the omicron virus have already been identified. All patients are in the hospital,” she said at a meeting of the coordinating council under the government to combat the new infection. “To date, the condition of all patients is stable, also because most of them have immunity,” Popova said.

Celebrate Christmas later WHO Head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus believes that the best strategy in the coming holiday period is to cancel Christmas and New Year’s plans and celebrate later. The reason was the rapid increase in the incidence of a new variant of the coronavirus “Omicron”. According to him, the fastest way to return to normal life is to “make the difficult decisions necessary to protect yourself and others,” which will often be associated with a change of New Year’s plans. “We are all tired of this pandemic, we all want to spend time with friends and family, we all want to return to normal life,” said the head of the WHO. — In some cases, this will mean the cancellation or postponement of events, for example, we had to cancel a reception that we planned to hold with you (journalists) today. But canceling an event is better than canceling

Specialists from The University of Leeds conducted a study of Himalayan glaciers and concluded that in recent decades they have melted ten times faster than the average since the last major expansion of glaciers 400-700 years ago – a period known as the Little Ice Age. This study also shows that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking much faster than glaciers in other parts of the world, so much so that scientists describe this melting as “exceptional.” During the study, scientists reconstructed the size and ice surfaces of 14,798 Himalayan glaciers during the Little Ice Age, and then compared them with the current area, and saw that the glaciers lost about 40 percent of their area. During this period, they lost as much ice as is contained today in the central European Alps, in the Caucasus and in Scandinavia combined. The team calculated that the water released as a result of this melting raised

The Moscow City Court left in jail the rector of “Shaninka” Sergey Zuev, who has undergone several operations since his arrest. The defense’s complaint about his detention was rejected, the press service of the court told RBC. On December 10, his defenders filed petitions for his release from arrest after President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Human Rights Council that there was no need to keep Zuev in jail. “As for the change in the measure of restraint to the person you mentioned from “Shaninka”, we need to look. I can’t disagree with you here either. I don’t see any need to keep a person behind bars according to the compositions that are imputed to him,” the president said. Zuev’s lawyer Dmitry Kravchenko called the court’s decision “anti-legal” and meaning “inhumane treatment” of his client. “We also had an incredible number of arguments in the first instance