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Photo of the dog Laika, the first living organism that traveled into orbit around the Earth within the spacecraft Sputnik 2 (November 3, 1957)

The Dumbbell Nebula depicted digitally sharpened in three isolated colors emitted by hydrogen and oxygen.

During Earth's infancy, our planet suffered through long periods of violent bombardment by enormous asteroids and comets

An artist conception of solar system's formation

An artist's interpretation of what the early universe looked like

During the Haedean period, there was a bombardment of Earth from materials left over from the formation of the solar system

The distance between the Earth and the Moon, its natural satellite, is about 384.000 km and the Εarth's diameter is a quarter bigger than the Moon's one.

The Earth is bombarded with information from space in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic spectrum covering VHF waves of gamma rays, x-rays, radiation of radio waves, ultraviolet, infrared and visible field of radiation, revealing another image of the universe.

The huge bright jet of particles ejected by the nucleus of the elliptical galaxy M-87

At a distance of 114 of millions of light years from Earth, the spiral galaxy IC 2163 with a diameter of 100,000 light years caught up in the largest galaxy of the same type, the NGC 2207 with a diameter of 143,000 light years

Photo of Sergey Korolyov designer of Sputnik 1 and architect of the first space triumphs of the Soviet Union

Photograph of the engineer Sergey Korolyov (1907-1966), who was the main representative of the Soviet space school in the 50s and 60s

View of the Mars' surface during the first human attempts of its exploration

Scientists study samples of lunar rocks in the laboratory

The spacecraft of Apollo 10 set into orbit around the Moon in 1969 and was consisted of the service/command module "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module "Snoopy"