Uranus observed unusual weather

Here is what happens: a thick, disordered atmosphere, where winds with speed reaching 900 kilometers per hour, a giant storm that would destroy the entire continent here, on Earth, and temperatures as high as -220 degrees Celsius. Sounds like a description of some icy hell, but in reality it is a picture of what is happening on the planet Uranus, unfolding before us on the new high-resolution images taken in the infrared range, which were obtained Keck Observatory, Hawaii.

Orionids meteor shower will climax this weekend

Soon the Earth will pass through a flow of debris that is left behind Halley's Comet, and you can watch a fantastic show of heaven known as the Orionids meteor shower. This is usually a very reliable meteor shower should peak at the upcoming weekend, October 20-21, 2012, and had at this time to give up to 25 meteors per hour, according to the McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin.

The unusual origin of Saturn's moons

Saturn's icy moons medium size were twisted when several much larger satellites crash, forming a giant moon Titan, states a new study conducted by a team of scientists led by Eric Asfogom University of California, Santa Cruz.

Initially, in the Saturn system there exists a family of relatively large satellites known as the "Galilean satellites" (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io), according to a new theory. But everything changed after a series of rather large collision between satellites, which are formed by Titan and was thrown into a huge amount of space matter that formed satellites such as Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus, the researchers say.