Google has created a virtual map of the galaxy

Google has released an application for discover the universe:

The developers of the team Google Data Arts Team, the project created a beautiful Chrome Experiments demo 100,000 stars ", which shows the actual location of more than 100 thousand around the stars, the sun.

The development team Google Data Arts has released a new, experimental application for the browser Chrome, offers a virtual tour of our local stellar neighborhood.

The close pair of stars surrounded by a "mysterious dust"

Astronomers have discovered a curious disk of gas and dust surrounding a system of two stars, the origin of which scientists cannot explain the basis of the standard models of planetary evolution.

A binary star system (with a simple name of SDSS J0303 +0054) is composed of white and red dwarfs, separated by distance of about 700,000 kilometers, the distance between the two stars is a very small value. 

Telescope "Kepler" has completed the basic mission

Space telescope, "Kepler", designed to search for planets outside the solar system, has completed the major part of their mission, but will continue for another four years. The announcement was published on the website NASA.

For three and a half years of the Space Telescope, scientists were able to detect more than two thousand objects candidates for the title of exoplanets.