Screenshot: gds.astro.rub.de A group of astronomers from the University of Rurore in Bochum (Germany) for five years followed our galaxy, looking for objects that over time change their brightness. These could be stars before which planets fly, or systems of several stars rotating around each other. But this is not the point. Now the researchers have created a giant photo of 46 billion pixels from the images of the Milky Way.

What we learned from the book of Mikhail Zygar "The whole Kremlin army" Photo: press service of the President of the Russian Federation "The whole Kremlin army" by Mikhail Zygary-the history of Russia from 1999 to 2015. "Medusa" has already published a chapter from the book , and now I have chosen ten interesting and unexpected things that Zygar talks about.

Bastian Schweinsteiger, midfielder of Manchester United and the German national football team, is going to sue the Hong Kong company DID, which released a toy Wehrmacht soldier that looks like a football player. The doll in the German military uniform of the Third Reich was named Bastian. Schweinsteiger's lawyers are preparing for legal proceedings: first of all, they intend to prevent the start of sales of the toy.

Film about the Minister of Sports of Abkhazia and his Russian wife Short: "Domino effect" The Artdokfest documentary festival in 2015 will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, some of the films from the competitive program are shown in Riga. Three times a week, the President of the festival Vitaly Mansky tells at Medusa about paintings from the competition. This time, the director represents the film “Domino effect” Elvira Nivira and Peter Rossolovsky (Poland, Germany, 2015).

Short: "Back to the future II" On October 21, Nike introduced the long -awaited Nike Air Mag sneakers, familiar to us from the film “Back to the Future 2”. As in the film, real sneakers can automatically be shut on, but how does it work? The Wired publication studied the patent for self -enslaving sneakers, which Nike received five years ago. Thanks to this document, you can get an idea of ​​how real Air Mag is arranged. The patent describes that the sneakers fix the leg in two places.

The Israeli Prime Minister was accused of rewriting history Photo: Sebastian Scheiner / Ap / Scanpix On October 20, the Prime Minister of Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the 37th World Zionist Congress, said that Adolf Hitler came to the idea of ​​destroying Jews under the influence of the mufti Jerusalem, the leader of the Palestinian Arab nationalists Amin al-Hoisei.

The creators of Instagram have released a new Boomerang app. With it, you can create four-second looped videos. The app is available on iOS and Android . InstagramIntroducing Boomerang from Instagram This is far from the first application for creating looping videos. For more than a year now there has been a Phhhoto project with similar capabilities. Or the same Vine . Even on Instagram itself, you can upload videos: they are looped by default, but they are not seamless.

Why is the production of clothing for people with disabilities - a business of the future Photo: Turkina Faso On October 23, as part of the Fashion Week Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week Russia will be shown collections made by students of the British design school for people with features of the body structure.

Radio France Internationale has accused the Russian television station Zvezda of running a false report supposedly based on RFI source material. Zvezda , which is operated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, recently claimed that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is accusing former Prime Minister and current Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko of sexual harassment.

The perpetrator who attacked teachers and students of a school in the Swedish city of Trollhättan with a knife died in a hospital from a gunshot wound. He was wounded by the police who arrived at the school after receiving the signal for the attack. The police did not name the perpetrator. It is only reported that this is a 21-year-old local resident. His motives remain unknown. The attack on a school in Trollhättan took place on the morning of 22 October.

The brother of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence for fraud, spoke about the conditions of detention in a punishment cell. A post about this was published on his Facebook (but obviously not by him). According to Navalny, the cell in the detention center is a small room in which the bed is cleaned for the day. Therefore, during the day he can either sleep "in funny positions" on a chair at the table or play sports.

Photo: dumskaya.net Ukraine's fascination with Darth Vader continues, as a factory in Odessa unveils the world's first Darth Vader monument. The figure is the work of local artist Alexander Milov, who's previously designed a gigantic robot statue, erected in the city of Yuzhne, outside Odessa. Milov's statue is more than art: there's also a router built into Vader's head, delivering Wi-Fi to the area around the Sith Lord. Photo: Dumskaya.net Mr.

The French radio station RFI (Radio France Internationale) accused the Russian TV channel Zvezda of publishing a false report citing RFI. This message on the channel's website says that Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, of sexual harassment. Zvezda claims that Yatsenyuk spoke about Tymoshenko's "constant offers of an intimate nature" in the program of journalist Elena Servettaz on RFI.

Law enforcement agencies of Turkey have detained 12 immigrants from Dagestan and Chechnya, suspected of having links with the Islamic State (in the Russian Federation, the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned). This was reported by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News, citing sources in the security services. Among those detained is a certain Mohammed al-Haj S., who, according to Hurriyet Daily News, is the commander of the Islamic State cell in Chechnya.

How the poster of the CIA was hacked: Wireed Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Ap / Scanpix In mid -October, hackers hacked the mail of the Director of the Central Intelligence Department of the United States John Brennan. The Wikileaks project has already begun to publish his correspondence. Wired tells how the hackers managed to hack the mail of a senior security official. Six documents from the poster of the CIA director are published on the WikiLeaks website. They are dated 2007-2008.