United States start on into space telescope to study the Sun

NASA engineers have started on rockets Pegasus XL, which took into space telescope IRIS, designed to study the sun, according to U.S. media. The launch was held in the state of California, according to the news.

The project cost $ 182 million mission of IRIS will last two years.

The observations from the telescope is expected to enable new information on solar flares and solar wind. Furthermore, IRIS makes pictures solar surface.

A space telescope to detect extraterrestrial life

The Space Research Institute of the Netherland thinks it may be possible to identify signs of alien life within the next 25 years, without the need for a space mission.

A new method

Astronomers have speculated for decades about how observations of exoplanets could provide evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Investigated such a supernova in 1604

Ray space telescope NASA Chandra, began to study the outstanding traces of an antique supernova explosion, which he observed by Io Gunn Kepler .

For the first time, a mention about this supernova are dated 1604. When the night sky is a new star in the place where previously there was none. This event recorded many of the astronomers of the time, including Johannes Kepler.

The universe is increasing, what threats the Earth

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that the astronomers who work with the Space Telescope, "Spitzer", were able to conduct a more accurate calculation of the rate of increase in the history of astronomy. In other words, this swiftness is called the Hubble constant.

We live on a small planet Earth, but this does not preclude our interest in the rest of the world. But to know the size of this huge, compared to us, the world, to find out what the age and expansion rate of the universe has. More recently, you can also add the concept of "acceleration of the expansion." But the accelerated expansion of the universe, you can still stick to the linear Hubble law.

New X-ray discovered a new black hole

In mid-September, a space telescope, "Swift" has found a rare celestial phenomenon - a new X-ray, the appearance of which specify the presence of previously unknown black hole (BH) of stellar mass.

The facility is named Swift J1745-26 in accordance with its coordinates in the sky, and the new is a few degrees away from the center of our galaxy in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. While astronomers to calculate the exact distance to the object, but they suggest that it is from us at a distance of 20,000 to 30,000 light-years away in the inner region of our Milky Way galaxy.