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Saturday, July 21, 2012

They find a fifth moon orbiting in Pluto


Hubble  Space  Telescope's  fifth  moon discovered orbiting Pluto, dwarf planet in the solar system, and  increased  the curiosity of scientists  in this more complex than is I thought.

The U.S. Space Agency (NASA) announced today that the fifth known moon of Pluto, named P5, is irregular in shape and dimension between 10 and 25 miles on a circular orbit of about 93 thousand miles around the planet.

Astrophysicists do not rule out Earth-like planet found before the 2022


Astrophysicists do not regulation out judgment within ten years a small planet like Earth said today Ignaci Ribas, one of the organizers of the "Cool Stars 17", the international meeting on cool stars in Barcelona brings together the best experts in this type of stars.
Rivas said in remarks to Efe already  identified  more  than  800  planets around cool stars, and that is very close to finding one that is very similar to ours.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Astronomers first observed dark galaxies in the early universe


Astronomers have observed first dark galaxy, an early stage of galaxy formation, said the European Southern Observatory (ESO) from its headquarters in the German city of Garching, to the south. The Scientists used the long-range telescope (VLT, for its acronym in English) Cerro Paranal Observatory in Chile, which managed to detect these gas-rich galaxies that do not contain stars, noting its brightness when illuminated by the light of a quasar.