Seagrasses , healthier 'enterradoras' forest carbon

The green meadow of Posidonia underwater that exist close to coastlines, and are seriously damaged by polluting discharges, trawling and pleasure craft facilities, are capable of capturing and storing carbon twice the lush tropical forests. A study of seagrass, thousand around the world has shown that under the sea there are 'sinks' that help fight climate change.

The work has been developed by a team of scientists from several countries, including experts from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. "

A garden center of stars the "nebula of war and peace”

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile has allowed a group of astronomers to find an extraordinary image of the nebula NGC 6357, a nursery of stars known as the "nebula of war and peace”

The scientific body said, this new panoramic, obtained from the ESO Observatory at Cerro Paranal has, in the Atacama Desert, shows numerous hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and dust strange formations sculpted by ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds.

The outline of "Mickey Mouse" on Mercury

This is not any joke or false move. The U.S. space agency shared his Flickr account this unique picture with the title "Mickey Mouse found on Mercury". The photograph is from the surface of the planet from the sun and the silhouette resembles the popular character created by Disney Studios. NASA explained that the photograph was taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft and is the result of a whimsical combination of craters and shadows in the global south. "The shadow helps define the striking resemblance to" Mickey Mouse ", created by the longest accumulation of craters on the geologic history of Mercury," NASA said in describing the picture. Messenger is the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and during their first year of mission took 88,746 images and other data sets.