“On January 5, the Earth will be at the closest distance from the Sun, which will allow us to observe the largest disk of the Sun of the year!”, The planetarium website said in a statement.
In addition, on January 10, a penumbra eclipse of the moon is expected, which can be observed throughout Russia.
In November 2019, it was reported that Russian surveillance tools discovered a new asteroid, comparable in size to the Chelyabinsk meteorite.