Draconid meteor shower reaches peak activity on Monday

Draconid meteor shower on Monday to reach peak activity, although this time, astronomers do not expect a "star storm" as last year, but it is possible that this meteor shower will present scientists surprises. Meteors occur when the atmosphere and there are burn microscopic dust particles. Meteor streams or Star rain associated with the passage of the Earth through the dust, who reserves the comet.

Australia has built a powerful new telescope

Australia celebrates the finishing point of construction the telescope, which is considered the most powerful telescope for radio survey in the world. The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to look at black holes, gas clouds from which stars form, and "unusual objects that are on the edge of our understanding of the physical laws of the universe," said astrophysicist Brian Boyle (Brian Boyle) Organization of Australian Scientific and Industrial Research of the Commonwealth.

New X-ray discovered a new black hole

In mid-September, a space telescope, "Swift" has found a rare celestial phenomenon - a new X-ray, the appearance of which specify the presence of previously unknown black hole (BH) of stellar mass.

The facility is named Swift J1745-26 in accordance with its coordinates in the sky, and the new is a few degrees away from the center of our galaxy in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. While astronomers to calculate the exact distance to the object, but they suggest that it is from us at a distance of 20,000 to 30,000 light-years away in the inner region of our Milky Way galaxy.