Water to fill 2,000 times the Earth's oceans in a future star

The Herschel space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered water steam to fill 2,000 times the Earth's oceans in a cloud of gas and dust is foundation to collapse to form a new star the size of our Sun.

Stars from within molecular clouds cold, the 'pre-stellar cores', containing all the necessary ingredients to create planetary systems like ours. Water had been discovered outside our solar system, near regions where new stars are forming and protoplanetary disks. These were water molecules in vapor form or in solid form, together with the dust particles.

Central nebulae in the Milky Way

The research instrument worlds most powerful recorded this fabulous view of the sky in one shot. The scene, looking near Sagittarius, covers an area of ​​approximately 3 degrees of curve or six times the diameter of the lunar disk.

The Lagoon Nebula (M8), Trifid Nebula (M20) and NGC 6559 (pictured at right) are, respectively, in the bottom of the scene, top right and bottom left. All of them are embedded in dusty fields and filled with stars of the Milky Way center.

Found a rock on Mars with terrestrial features

CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) - When scientists selected a stone to test the laser robot on Mars Curiosity, expected to enclose the same raw materials as the stones found in other areas of the Red Planet, but in its place realized that it was more similar to rocks found on Earth.

The stone was chemically more like an unusual rock type found on oceanic islands like Hawaii and Santa Elena, and in continental areas with cracks as the Rio Grande, which stretches from Colorado to Chihuahua, Mexico.