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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The spectacular new image of the Helix nebula shows infrared colors


According to new observations from the Spritzer Space Telescope for NASA, a group of comets is disgraceful collide and kicking up dust around a dead star. The star is at the center of the much-photographed Helix nebula (Helix), a bright cloud of gas with an uncanny resemblance to a giant eye.
"We were surprised to see so much dust around this star," said Dr. Kate Su of the University of Arizona in Tucson, lead author of the article written about the results. The work will appear in the March 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters."The dust must be coming from comets that survived the death of their sun."

The galaxies were divided into three classes


The famous ethnologist and scientist Richard Dawkins is very likely that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but much rarer than we can go as far that simply presents us with the enormous grandeur of Cosmos and its almost infinite capacity to surprise us daily. 
In the few months of life that this young blog Astronomy we have been able to attend many surprises, but I assure you that today is one of the strangest. 

The rainbow of fire: An unusual atmospheric phenomenon


The Rainbow of Fire - flicker creative commons in different sections of science and Yahoo! have witnessed some certainly curious natural phenomena as the " tsunami of clouds "that occasionally occurs in some coastal areas such as Panama City in Florida, or the sea of waves that form over the Tide volcano on Tenerife, or even that perfect moment that the photographer managed to capture Tommy Eliassen in one image the Milky Way, the Northern Lights and the passage of a meteorite.
But today we bring is undoubtedly one of the most unusual weather phenomena and beautiful world.