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Monday, August 27, 2012

Discovered a planet 36 light years away could harbor life


A planet with features that make it suitable for harboring life was discovered by a group of astronomers who used a powerful telescope in Chile. He has been called HD85512b and is about 36 light-years away. Its discovery by European astronomers announced a Monday and the scientific community considers it as already known planet other than Earth most likely to contain life.

The theft of a million dollars in the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico


Sometimes the study and observation of the universe is very Earthlings encounter problems, as with the Large Millimeter Telescope located on top of an extinct volcano at 4580 meters altitude in Puebla, east of Mexico. Recently the Attorney (prosecutor) General's Office (PGR) arrested two youths who are accused of stealing between 126 and 128 subpanels aluminum and nickel that would be installed on the device.

A billion pixels for a billion stars


E2v has worked for more than five years to produce all of the Gaia CCD. I doubt those going to buy a can of paint to store hardware chain Homebase has in the English town of Chelmsford think too much about what happens in the factory adjoining art. It is the headquarters of e2v; a company that gained fame after World War II manufactured lamps for television industry but now produces camera sensors for some of the most important space missions.