Rider is a list of requirements that celebrity agents send ahead of time to the organizers of the performance. Sometimes these lists make the receiving party clutch their heads: “Well, why would they need THIS?”.
The editors of the site found out what things Russian and foreign stars need for a comfortable existence. Here is a selection of oddities and whims from star riders.
This information was collected from celebrity riders of different years, so the information may be out of date due to changes in their show programs, tastes, or for other reasons.
Ridiculous riders of foreign stars
Celine Dion
Celine Dion requires that the temperature in the dressing room be no more or less than 23 degrees Celsius. Otherwise there will be no concert! 
Britney Spears
Britney Spears demanded a dedicated telephone line in the dressing room, otherwise the organizers paid a $3,000 fine for each incoming call. There was a time when before a concert she and her team needed 100 McDonald's cheeseburgers... no buns. And for a concert in London in 2011, she needed a framed photograph of Princess Diana. 
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez wants to be surrounded by white everywhere, and could leave the organizers with nothing if her sheets are not made from the purest cotton. And during a performance in Moscow, she needed a motorcade of 19 S-class cars, and hippos and crocodiles were to be embroidered on towels for her kids.Rider Jennifer Lopez for a concert in Moscow
Madonna
Madonna is asking for a staff of 200 people, including a personal chef, a yoga instructor, 30 bodyguards and a special person to vacuum the stage costumes. The room should have pale pink lilies or white roses with a 15-centimeter stem. 
Iggy Pop
The demands of Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges took up 28 A4 pages. One of the requirements was as follows: “We need 7 dwarfs dressed exactly like those dwarfs from the Walt Disney cartoon about a woman who falls into hibernation for a century after she was bitten by a poisonous gnome, or after she pricked her finger with a sharp an apple...or something like that. Well, taller people will do too. The main thing is attitude. And don't forget the pointed hats. 
Paul McCartney
A longtime vegetarian, Paul McCartney will not tolerate anything in his room that results in the death of a living being: no hides, furs or skins, not to mention meat for dinner. 
Marilyn Manson
Brutal Marilyn Manson will cancel the concert if his favorite Haribo bears, popcorn and chips are not in the dressing room. 
David Hesselhoff
Actor and singer David Hesselhoff wants to see his full-length cardboard figure in the act. 
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand wants the floor and toilet bowl to be strewn with rose petals. 
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj's requests are very modest: a bucket of spicy chicken wings, two heaters, bakery-scented candles, three different flavors of gum and a plate of cheese. 
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey asks for a bottle of Cristal champagne and a straw to be brought to the room to sip it slowly. She needs a helper to throw away her gum and help her up the stairs. The room should have a sofa in dark colors "without these annoying patterns." The temperature in the room is exactly 24 degrees Celsius, the room is full of white roses and vanilla-scented candles. 
Cher
Singer Cher needs a separate wig room. It sounds strange, but she really has a lot of them. 
cold play
There are no special requirements for Coldplay members, except that every hotel room should have postcards with images of local attractions - they send them to the family, such a tradition. 
beyoncé
Beyoncé has two conditions that are not discussed under any circumstances: a huge dressing room the size of a school gym and baked chicken for dinner. 
Rihanna
Rihanna's room should have a "plush" sofa and animal-print pillows, preferably zebra or tiger stripes, always without sequins, as well as a brand new carpet to walk on barefoot. 
Katy Perry
Katy Perry's 45-page rider contains the following conditions: two cream-colored egg chairs, a refrigerator with a glass door, a vintage French lamp with an ornament, a special person for washing fruits and vegetables. And none of the staff should talk to her. 
Eminem
Eminem is no longer the cocky bully he was at the beginning of his career. Now he has a philosophy of contemplation, which is probably why he once demanded a hotel with a pond full of Japanese koi from the organizers of a performance in Ireland. 
Robbie Williams
Another fan of Zen Buddhism is Robbie Williams. His dressing room must have a bonsai tree, a photograph of the Dalai Lama and four ashtrays, and sometimes a live monkey. 
M.I.A.
Singer M.I.A. wants to see a couple of 20-25-year-old dancers dressed in a burqa in the backup dancer, and in the room - "Gruyère cheese, old as dinosaurs." 
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's rider is weird simply because it's Lady Gaga. The dressing room should be decorated in the style of glam rock (whatever that means), all bath accessories should be lavender in color and smell, and a mannequin with pink pubic hair should be in the bathroom. 
Moby
Moby needs 10 pairs of white cotton socks and 10 white boxers. He takes the underwear left after the performance with him. 
The secret becomes clear
Van Halen's rider said, "The room should have a vase of M&M's with all the browns removed." But this strange, at first glance, requirement is more than a stellar whim. 
The fact is that each performance of the group required serious efforts from the host. During the show, Van Halen drove onto the stage in huge trucks and did many other tricks that turned the performance into a colorful show, and any mistake in stage design could turn into a disaster.
To make sure that the organizers carefully read the technical requirements for the stage, among the detailed description of every little thing like outlets and the width of doorways, a section "Treats" with a line about M&M's was hidden. If, when checking into a room, the artists saw brown M&M's in the bowl, the concert was immediately canceled, the money was not returned to the organizer.
Riders of Russian stars
Singer Nikita
Singer Nikita, the author of the once popular song “Flew Forever”, loves his chow-chow Seva very much. In 2005, the media reported that a prerequisite for his rider is a separate room, a car and a hairdresser for a pet. Seva should have been fed young meat with vegetables and nothing else. Nikita was not so scrupulous about his beloved: he only asked to be put in a room in pastel colors. 
Lolita
The rider of Lolita Milyavskaya seems quite adequate: a suite in a five-star hotel, bodyguards and a limousine at the gangway. But even these simple requirements were not always met. Tired of the irresponsibility of the organizers, Lolita added to the list "Oka" with a flashing light, which should meet her at the airport. So she determines who has read her rider and who has not. Those who read will certainly call and clarify, to which the singer replies: “Joke, relax!”. 
As for the performance itself, Lolita needs two Viennese chairs and three water cannons on stage. After the last paragraph, I even wanted to go to the singer's concert.
Taisiya Povaliy
In the rider 
Zemfira
In 2013, Zemfira came to Ukraine with a concert. The organizers of the event posted on the network the singer's rider demanding to provide her with a suite in a 5-star hotel, a BMW or Mercedes of an executive class with the ability to smoke in the cabin, 5 security guards, and a dressing room, which must have 10 terry towels and soap (with a shower there was no word). The menu listed 10 raw eggs, apparently to maintain the voice. But there was no alcohol on the list at all, contrary to widespread rumors that Zemfira likes to drink a glass of Widow Clicquot or a glass of Hennessy before the concert. 
Alexander Rybak
In 2009, a pop star with Norwegian roots impressed the organizers of the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk with her demands. The producers of Alexander Rybak requested a representative Mercedes S220, and for its accompanying Mercedes Sprinter. According to the rider, the singer must be assigned at least two security guards, and during concerts, the backup dancers and musicians should have their own security. The minibar in the room was supposed to be filled with the following drinks: 10 bottles of beer, 1 bottle of dry white wine, 20 bottles of still water, 20 bottles of lemonade and 5 bottles of Coca-Cola Light. At the same time, the Rybak troupe was strictly forbidden to feed pizza and fast food. It is not clear why the festival management was so dumbfounded and "excessive and annoying" rather modest conditions for the winner of Eurovision, which took only 2 pages.A limousine, 2 escort cars and a Mercedes bus for backup dancers are required to meet the singer at the gangway. In Russia and the CIS countries, Kirkorov's safety on the road should be ensured by traffic police cars.
The artist must be provided with at least a two-room presidential suite. The first room is large and bright, with a full-length mirror, upholstered furniture, a dressing table, a wardrobe for at least 20 suits, a table with a snow-white tablecloth, a private bathroom, fresh flowers and a decanter of orange juice. The second room is completely given over to the wardrobe.
One of the strangest conditions of the rider Kirkorov is “preliminary showing on local TV of Kirkorov's video clips, the film “Philip Kirkorov. One Year in the Life: Love and the Stage" and commercials for his performance.
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Today you will learn about the most unusual stars. It is estimated that there are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe and about 100 billion stars in each galaxy. Given so many stars, there must be strange ones among them. Many of the sparkling, burning balls of gas are quite similar to each other, but some stand out for their odd size, weight, and behavior. Using modern telescopes, scientists continue to study these stars to better understand them and the universe, but mysteries still remain. Curious about the strangest stars? Here are 25 of the most unusual stars in the universe.
25. UY Scuti
Considered a supergiant star, UY Scuti is large enough to swallow up our star, half of our neighboring planets, and virtually our entire solar system. Its radius is about 1700 times the radius of the Sun.
24. Star of Methuselah
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The star of Methuselah, also called HD 140283, really lives up to its name. Some believe it is 16 billion years old, which is a problem since the Big Bang only happened 13.8 billion years ago. Astronomers have tried to use better methods of age determination to better date the star, but still believe it to be at least 14 billion years old.
23. Thorn-Zhitkov object
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Initially, the existence of this object was proposed theoretically by Kip Thorne (Kip Thorne) and Anna Zhitkova (Anna Zytkow), it represents two stars, a neutron and a red supergiant, combined into one star. A potential candidate for the role of this object has been named HV 2112.
22. R136a1 
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Although UY Scuti is the largest star known to man, R136a1 is definitely one of the heaviest in the universe. Its mass is 265 times greater than the mass of our Sun. What makes her weird is that we don't know exactly how she was formed. The main theory is that it was formed by the merger of several stars.
21.PSR B1257+12
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Most of the exoplanets in the solar system PSR B1257+12 are dead and bathed in deadly radiation from their old star. A surprising fact about their star is that the zombie star or pulsar has died, but the core still remains. The radiation emanating from it makes this solar system a no man's land.
20. SAO 206462
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Consisting of two spiral arms spanning 14 million miles across, SAO 206462 is certainly the strangest and most unique star in the universe. While some galaxies are known to have arms, stars usually don't. Scientists believe that this star is in the process of creating planets.
19. 2MASS J0523-1403
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2MASS J0523-1403 is arguably the smallest known star in the universe and is only 40 light years away. Due to its small size and mass, scientists believe that its age may be 12 trillion years.
18. Heavy metal subdwarfs
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Astronomers recently discovered a pair of stars with a lot of lead in their atmospheres, which creates thick and heavy clouds around the star. They are called HE 2359-2844 and HE 1256-2738 and are located 800 and 1000 light years away respectively, but you can just call them heavy metal subdwarfs. Scientists are still not sure how they form.
17. RX J1856.5-3754
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From the moment of their birth, neutron stars begin to ceaselessly lose energy and cool down. Thus, it is unusual that a 100,000-year-old neutron star such as RX J1856.5-3754 could be so hot and not show any signs of activity. Scientists believe that interstellar material is held together by the strong gravitational field of the star, resulting in enough energy to heat the star.
16. KIC 8462852
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The star system KIC 8462852 has received a lot of attention and interest from SETI and astronomers for its unusual behavior of late. Sometimes it dims by 20 percent, which may mean that something is orbiting around it. Of course, this prompted some to conclude that these were aliens, but another explanation is the debris of a comet that entered the same orbit with a star.
15. Vega
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Vega is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, but that doesn't make it weird at all. The high rotation speed of 960,600 km per hour gives it the shape of an egg, and not spherical, like our Sun. There are also temperature variations, with colder temperatures at the equator.
14.SGR 0418+5729
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A magnet located 6,500 light-years from Earth, SGR 0418+5729 has the strongest magnetic field in the universe. The strange thing about it is that it does not fit the image of traditional magnetars with a surface magnetic field, as in ordinary neutron stars.
13. Kepler-47
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In the constellation Cygnus, 4,900 light-years from Earth, astronomers have first discovered a pair of planets orbiting two stars. Known as the Kelper-47 system, the orbiting stars outshine each other every 7.5 days. One star is roughly the size of our Sun, but only 84 percent as bright. The discovery proves that more than one planet can exist in a stressful orbit of a binary star system.
12. La Superba
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La Superba is another massive star located 800 light years away. It is about 3 times heavier than our Sun and four astronomical units in size. It is so bright that it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye.
11. MY Camelopardalis
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MY Camelopardalis was thought to be a single bright star, but the two stars were later found to be so close that they practically touch each other. Two stars slowly fuse together to form one star. No one knows when they will fully merge.
10.PSR J1719-1438b
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Technically, PSR J1719-1438b is not a star, but it was once. When it was still a star, its outer layers were sucked out by another star, turning it into a small planet. What's even more amazing about this former star is that it's now a giant diamond planet five times the size of Earth.
9. OGLE TR-122b
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Usually, against the background of an average star, the rest of the planets resemble pebbles, but OGLE TR-122b is about the same size as Jupiter. That's right, it's the smallest star in the universe. Scientists believe it originated as a stellar dwarf billions of years ago, the first time a star comparable in size to a planet has been discovered.
8. L1448 IRS3B
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Astronomers discovered the three-star system L1448 IRS3B as it began to form. Using the ALMA telescope in Chile, they observed two young stars orbiting a much older star. They believe that these two young stars appeared as a result of a nuclear reaction with gas rotating around the star.
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Mira, also known as Omicron Ceti, is 420 light-years away and is quite strange due to its constantly fluctuating brightness. Scientists consider it a dying star, located in the last years of its life. Even more amazing is that it travels through space at 130 kilometers per second and has a tail that spans several light-years.
6. Fomalhaut-C
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If you think the two-star system was cool, then you might want to see Fomalhaut-C. It is a system with three stars only 25 light years from Earth. Although triple star systems are not entirely unique, this one is because the arrangement of the stars far away rather than close together is an anomaly. The star Fomalhaut-C is especially far away from A and B.
5. Swift J1644+57
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The appetite of a black hole is not picky. In the case of Swift J1644+57, a dormant black hole woke up and engulfed the star. Scientists made this discovery in 2011 using X-ray and radio waves. It took 3.9 billion light years for light to reach Earth.
4.PSR J1841-0500
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Known for their regular and constantly pulsating glow, they are rapidly rotating stars that rarely "turn off". But PSR J1841-0500 surprised scientists by only doing it for 580 days. Scientists believe that studying this star will help them understand how pulsars work.
3.PSR J1748-2446
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The strangest thing about PSR J1748-2446 is that it is the fastest rotating object in the universe. It has a density 50 trillion times that of lead. To top it off, its magnetic field is a trillion times stronger than that of our Sun. In short, this is an insanely hyperactive star.
2. SDSS J090745.0+024507
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SDSS J090745.0+024507 is a ridiculously long name for a runaway star. With the help of a supermassive black hole, the star has been blasted out of its orbit and is moving fast enough to exit the Milky Way. Let's hope that none of these stars will rush in our direction.
1. Magnetar SGR 1806-20
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Magnetar SGR 1806-20 is a terrifying force that exists in our universe. Astronomers detected a bright flash at a distance of 50,000 light-years, and it was so powerful that it reflected off the Moon and illuminated the Earth's atmosphere for ten seconds. The solar flare raised questions among scientists about whether such a flare could lead to the extinction of all life on Earth.
Nothing is more discussed during the various awards ceremonies than the outfits of the stars. Celebrities love to show off their splendor in front of the lenses of photojournalists and attract the attention of the public. But sometimes their very original outfits cause frank bewilderment. See the weirdest celebrity outfits of 2015.
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1. Madonna in a very original, if not strange, outfit at the Grammy Awards in 2015. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images; Starraks Photo/REX). 
2. Famous supermodel Irina Shayk at the Vanity Fair After Party in Los Angeles. On Irina, with her perfect figure, this very ambiguous dress looks perfect. But if you choose a similar dress for graduation 2015, you can be very disappointed when you see yourself in the mirror, provided, of course, if your figure is not an exact copy of the beautiful Irina. (Photo: DANNY MOLOSHOK/Newscom/Reuters; Evan Agostini/Invision/AP). 
3. Rihanna seems to be very pleased with her voluminous dress, which she chose for the Grammy Awards in 2015. (Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP). 
4. American singer Toni Braxton in a very original black dress (especially behind) at the Grammy ceremony. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images). 
5. British singer Rita Ora in a very revealing dress at the Vanity Fair After Party in Los Angeles. (Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP). 
6. Joy Villa in a mesh dress at the 2015 Grammy Awards. (Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP). 
7. Famous model Alessandra Ambrosio at the InStyle and Warner Bros party on the occasion of the Golden Globe Awards. It seems that fashion designers decided to save on fabric. (Photo: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP). 
8. Known for the series "Game of Thrones" British actress Gwendolyn Christie in the "cape of a superhero" at the awards ceremony "Elle Style Awards" in London. (Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images). 
9. Celebrity Kim Kardashian in a "robe" at the Grammy Awards in 2015. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) 
10. British singer Charlie XCX most likely just forgot to wear a dress to the NME Awards at the Brixton Academy in London. (Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images) 
11. FKA Twigs at the Brit Awards in London. It is difficult to even describe this intricate outfit in words. (Photo: Brian Rasic/REX; Ian Gavan/Getty Images) 
12. American pop singer Jordyn Sparks at the Grammy Awards. Just a terrible dress. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images). 
13. Actress Rose McGowan at the Elton John AIDS Foundation After Party after the Oscars in Los Angeles, either in a dress or a jacket. (Photo: GUS RUELAS/Newscom/Reuters; Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP). 
14. Selita Ebanks - model and "angel" Victoria's Secret - came to the awards ceremony "Film Independent Spirit Awards" in Los Angeles in "pajamas". (Photo: Jim Smeal/BEI/REX; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP). 17. Australian singer Sia (Sia Furler) at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills. Her outfit raises only one question: what would that mean? (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images).
In clear weather, myriads of tiny “lamps” light up in the night sky, with which mankind associated the phenomena of birth and death, earthly cataclysms and catastrophes, creative discoveries, and even the change of entire eras. These inhabitants of the sky are called stars. The brightest and most beautiful of them are experiencing the heyday of their existence, followed by inevitable extinction and death.
Where do stars come from?
These are material bodies, for the "construction" of which matter and energy are needed. After the Big Bang, the processes of formation of new substances and objects are continuously taking place in the Universe. The life path of a star is characterized by processes that mark its dawn, adulthood and decay process:
- In a cloud of gas, consisting mainly of hydrogen and dust, under the influence of gravitational forces, the matter is drawn into the central region.
- Thermal energy is released from the hot bowels of a shrinking gas and dust cloud.
- Hot gases "burst" the star, rushing outward, and the force of gravity, on the contrary, compresses them to the center. When these energies come into balance, the protostar no longer contracts, but evenly radiates light into outer space.
- Nuclear fusion reactions take place in the cosmic body: hydrogen is converted into helium. Once this process is over, the star will begin to die.
At the end of life, an exhausted celestial body becomes a white dwarf with a huge density of matter (1 tsp can weigh as much as a whole freight train).
The most beautiful "celestials"
Some stars spread a uniform cold brilliance, others are constantly pulsating, others are either burning or disappearing in the sky. Many of them are associated with many myths and legends. The most beautiful and brightest stars, according to the legends of ancient people, have a special divine energy that can radically change a person's life. Names such as Rigel, Altair and Sirius are familiar to many, but their mysterious beauty is associated with physical laws that are the same for everything that exists in space.
Looking at the clear night sky, the observer immediately draws attention to 3 bright stars lined up in one straight line at a relatively short distance from each other. This is Orion's Belt - a constellation symbolizing the brave hunter Orion, whose life path is closely connected with ancient Greek mythology. If you look a little down and sideways, as if a person puts his foot to the side, you can see the bright star Rigel. From Arabic, the name is translated as "leg". From the Sun to Rigel - 770 light years.
In diameter, the white hot giant exceeds the luminary of the solar system by 68 times. The temperature on its surface reaches 11200 K. Rigel is interesting in that at a distance of 1 a. That is, from it (the distance from the Earth to the Sun), any cosmic body will be swept away by the energy of a stellar vortex raging in circumstellar space.
According to one of the legends, the hunter Orion ended up on the island of Chios and fought terrible monsters there, protecting the locals from them. The king agreed to marry his daughter Merope to him. But when the animals were destroyed, King Enopion refused. At night, the satyrs made Orion drunk, and the king gouged out the eyes of the hunter.
Blind Orion learned that Helios - the God of the Sun - could restore his sight and set off on a long journey. He visited the blacksmith Hephaestus, took one of his students with him, sat him on his shoulders and went to the border of the Earth. The student told me where to go. Vision was returned to the hunter by the great Helios.
The celestial object is located in the constellation Eagle and is literally translated from Arabic as "a flying hawk." The star is at 159 trillion. km. from the sun. The temperature at its outer boundaries reaches 8000 K. The star is interesting in that it rotates around its axis in 6-10 hours. This rapid reversal resulted in Altair being 20% smaller in diameter than along the pole line. It has the shape of an ellipse and belongs to the class of white hot stars.
According to Japanese legends, the king's daughter Vega and the shepherd Altair, who guarded the star flocks, passionately fell in love with each other. But the king was against their marriage and asked the sun goddess Amaterasu to destroy their union. An insurmountable barrier appeared between the lovers in the form of the Milky Way.
Vega stopped weaving her canvases, and Altair's star herds dispersed in different directions. The time of rain and bad weather has come on Earth. People, turning their eyes to the night sky, did not see more stars. And then the earthly inhabitants began to ask Amaterasu to return the opportunity for young people to meet. Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th month, lovers can now see each other.
The celestial body is located in the constellation Canis Major and exceeds the Sun in brightness by as much as 20 times. But its mass is only 2 times greater than that of the central object of the solar system. Sirius spreads a cold bluish glow, which indicates the life "potential" of the star, although its age is approaching 230 million years. An interesting fact is that this space object is moving towards the Sun with a catastrophically fast speed - 7.6 km / s. Every year Sirius will become brighter and larger in the night sky.
Mentions of the star can be found in the writings of the Sumerians and ancient Egyptian sages, in the Koran, in Greek mythology. And to this day, some African tribes, untouched by civilization, worship Sirius. There is a legend that on the eve of earthly catastrophes, the inhabitants of Sirius visit the Earth to warn people about the impending disaster.
Time intervals in the heavenly realm are calculated in millions and billions of years. There will be many more generations of people who will admire the magnificent celestial bodies moving at great speed in outer space. And amazing tales and legends will be formed about the most unusual stars, surrounding them with a halo of beauty and mystery.
