Sweet space: sugar from STAR

In a cloud of gas and dust around young stars are found far monosaccharides. The simplest the "building blocks of life" - exactly the right time and the right place to be on the planet-forming.

Binary star IRAS 16293-2422 is not so far, only 400 light-years from Earth in the gas and dust cloud surrounding the Rho Ophiuchi. Her entourage Danish astronomer Jess Jorgensen (Jes Jorgensen) and colleagues observed in the infrared, with the observatory  ALMA , revealed traces  glikolaldegida .

Discovered another planet, which can have a life,

Gliese 163 c is classified as “sverhzemel "stone the size of the planets in our not too big: it is estimated minimum mass of 6.9 Earth. It rotate around a red dwarf star, making a complete rotation every 26 Earth days. Distance away from the star is about 50 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Dorado.

A star cluster has a secret

The ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the stunning globular star cluster Messier 4. This group consists of tens of thousands of antique stars is one of the closest and one of the most studied globular clusters. Recent research has exposed that one of its stars has unusual and surprising properties; apparently it is the secret of eternal youth.