Pencil Nebula

This magnificent picture thin, like a carefully woven threads, give the feeling that on the object labored diligent hand, workman. We have previously presented pictures Pencil Nebula, made ​​with the Space Telescope in Chile. Now propose to look at a photo taken by an amateur astronomer.

Martin Pugh took this picture Pencil Nebula or NGC 2736, at home in New South Wales, Australia.

Awaiting the next "doomsday" left in '93

Russian amateur astronomers have found in space potentially dangerous asteroid 2012 YQ1. This unique detection they made ​​to remotely control a remote observatory "Helen" in the Chilean Atacama Desert, where there is also a complex 8-meter VLT telescopes of the European Southern Observatory.

Given that "Elena" is one of the most advanced telescopes in use today, the likelihood that the researchers are wrong is extremely low. 

Secrets of icy Dione

Scientists find out some of the secrets of the fourth moon of Saturn. Dione is the fourth largest natural satellite of Saturn. Dione was release the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1684. However, officially its current name the given satellite of has received only in 1847. Its diameter is 1 123.4 kilometers. This Saturnine satellite of consists predominantly of water ice with considerable admixture of stone breeds of in internal layers of. Scientists have made a similar postulation proceeding from the density of Dione.