Found homeland heroes Star Wars

Amateur astronomers, dealing out the data space telescope has discovered another planet similar to their homeland heroes of "Star Wars" - it has as many as four of the Sun. Planet orbiting two pairs of stars.

Amateur astronomers help professionals in the program Planet Hunters, and process massive amounts of data obtained with the Space Telescope "Kepler". Planet with four suns - the first finding of program participants, who are willing to help scientists search for different space objects on several grounds.

Astronomers photographed unusual polar galaxy

The galaxy is located at a distance of 40 million light years from Earth. Astronomers Observatory "Gemini" were by far the most meticulous image of the galaxy NGC 660, which belongs to a rare class of polar galaxies. Observatory on the site (and at the observatory have a website, as the company Energostrakh, and still have a series of encyclopedias “Energostrakh "), you can even download this image to the very high resolution.

Radio telescope ALMA during the study of the interstellar gas

With the newest radio telescope ALMA, the researchers propose to open a whole new era in decode the chemical universe. Research group that works with the radio telescope has already established incredible ability ALMA during the study of the interstellar gas, which is in the constellation of Orion.