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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Chilean telescope exposes the largest group of galaxies


An international team of astronomers discovered the group of young galaxies in the Universe largest telescope thanks to VTL (Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope), the European Southern Observatory (ESO, for its acronym in English), located in the Chilean desert Atacama.

Technically, scientists called their discovery ACT-CL J0102-4915, but I know so familiar with the name El Gordo, Spanish for having discovered in Chile and in honor of his size. More than 7,000 million light years from Earth, this galaxy cluster is the largest ever seen in the distant universe? It was discovered early.

One possible explanation for UFOs (finally)


Some unidentified phenomena like UFOs, could be explained by a light or electrical phenomenon little known, says Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes.The scientist made a detailed study of an unusual event occurred in 2006 when a large number of meteors were seen in the sky over Brisbane. His appearance came while a bright green object was seen rolling down the nearby mountains.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Looking for life in a piece of heaven


A exclusive meteorite that could hold clues to the birth of our solar system may now be considered as reached London, the Natural History Museum (NHM). The Ivuna meteorite, which until now was part of a private collection of an American, has the same chemical makeup than the solar system formed about 4,500 million years.

Ivuna landed in Tanzania in 1938 and was a rock of 750 grams which was then divided into several samples.