Every year in November, the cultural and educational campaign “Night of Arts” is held in Russia. The main goal of the action passing from 2013 is to provide citizens with the opportunity to visit museums, theaters, libraries and to get acquainted with the cultural space of the Russian Federation. In 2021, the All-Russian action “Night of Art” is timed to the Day of National Unity and will be held on November 4th.
The Day of People’s Unity Day itself has been celebrated since 2005 and is associated with the events of 1612, when the soldiers of the national militia under the leadership of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Poshsky storm took China City, freeing Moscow from the Polish Interventory and demonstrating a sample of heroism and cohesion of everything People regardless of origin, religion and position in society.
Within the framework of the All-Russian campaign “Night of the Arts” and the Day of People’s Unity, the Moscow Planetarium will broadcast in open access on its YouTube-channel lecture from the Tribuna of the Scientist’s Tribuna of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Astrophysics and Star Astronomy Gaish Moscow State University, Valid Member of the International Academy of Sciences VSH, a member of the International Astronomical Union, a member of the European Astronomical Society, a member of the Eurasian Astronomical Society, a member of the Academic Council of the Moscow Planetarium, a graduate of the astronomical mug of the Moscow planetaria Anatoly Zadov.
Stars and galaxies have already existed when our land has not yet been in nature, but learn their age is not easy task, because we can talk about hundreds of millions or even billion years. The solution to this task is very important for understanding how the world environment evolves when the first stars and star systems appeared in it, and it became possible to form a planet type of land. Together with the author of the lecture, we learn all the most interesting about stars, galaxies and about how scientists were able to determine their age.