"Eye" spiral nebula is blue

Helix Nebula (snail) is often called the "Eye of God" or "Eye of Sauron", and do not reject that this place looks like a cosmic eye, looks straight at us. On the new image, which combined the image transmitted from the telescope "Spitzer" and GALEX, the eye appears to us in a blue shade that complements the palette of gold, green and turquoise of the nebula, obtained previously by other observatories.

Curiosity first sample of Martian soil

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity first dig a soil sample of the Red Planet this weekend, mission scientists announced yesterday, October 4.

1-ton rover arrived at the sandy area called "Rocknest", on Wednesday, October 3. Scientists have found a place suitable for his first robot operations associated with the extraction of soil samples with the bucket, which should start on Saturday, 6 October, if all goes according to plan.

Rapid star will test the theory of relativity

Astronomers have exposed a star that hits record speed, moving around the central black hole (BH) of our Milky Way galaxy at a speed of 5,000 kilometers per second and making a complete rotate in less than 12 years.

This discovery gives scientists a unique opportunity over the next decade to test the theory of relativity in extreme conditions.