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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Most excellent photo of the Sun from NASA


Astronomers from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (NASA) for the first time took a photo of our central achiever in high definition.

We have not had time to approve of the photographs of the Sun made by Solar Dynamics Observatory, but this time the picture was in use in a high resolution, which officials said NASA, that smooth the most modern TV Ultra-HD TV cannot show it at full resolution.

Spacecraft "Solar Dynamics Observatory" (Solar Dynamics Observatory / SDO), launched by the American space agency, in February 2010, is "guilty" of the most stunning images of solar flares.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Moon Illusion


Presented another answer to the age old question of why the moon comes into view larger close to the horizon than at the pinnacle.

Joseph Antonides and Toshiro Kubota from Susquehanna University (USA) re-opened the debate around the famous optical illusion. According to their theory, the illusion is due to inconsistency between the estimates of distances, which allow the brain is subjective picture of the world and according to binocular vision.

Friday, January 18, 2013

First time Martian rock drilling ready


Curiosity rover is get ready to hold the first Martian rock drilling - in a carefully selected for this purpose, which in the history have to splash water.

Extraordinary ton machine should start work in the next couple of weeks.