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Saturday, October 27, 2012

The smallest supermassive black hole


Who of us do not ever remember the Old New Year with a sad joy, and now we have a new oxymoron - a mini-supermassive black hole (BH). However, regardless of the fact that this black hole is the tiny class of super-massive black hole, its mass is still huge - it is about 200,000 mass of our Sun.

A team of astronomers led by Nathan Sekrestom of George Mason University, explore the galaxy NGC 4178, did not expect that at the center of this galaxy is the black hole, as NGC 4178 has pronounced bulge - bright area near the center of the galaxy, 

Complete rotation of Jupiter, by Damian Peach


Damian Peach is the most accepted and planetary astrophotography while most "hated" the world. Admired by the incredible images it achieves. Hated because, although some approaches you, no one can its level. And it is very secretive and does not share their methods.

There is much speculation about how it does. Legend has it that gives access Celestron factory and can thus choose the best SC. 

A halo of NGC 6164


The attractive emanation nebula NGC 6164 was created by a strange, hot and bright star of type O , about 40 times more massive than the Sun Vista here in the center of the cosmic cloud, the star has an age of 3-4000000 years, within three or four million years will end its life in a supernova explosion .

With a diameter of about 4 light years away, the nebula has a bipolar symmetry,