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Monday, July 15, 2013

The Sombrero Galaxy is seen by the Hale

What happens in the center of this spiral galaxy? Call Sombrero Galaxy for its resemblance to the Mexican sombrero, M104 has a very striking dust lane and bright halo consisting of stars and clusters globular. 

The diffuse glow of the extended core of the galaxy is due to the brilliance of billions of old stars. 

Colorful imaged the death of a planetary nebula

The NASA has achieved through his telescope Chandra grasping the end of a star's life, namely NGC 2393, known as "Eskimo Nebula". This study allows astronomers to predict the demise of the Sun, expected within about 5,000 million years.

Planetary nebulae like this are formed when a star consumes all the hydrogen in its core, something will happen to our sun in about 5,000 million years, reports NASA. At the time this happens, 

The first exoplanet that around a solar-type star

That blue dot in the upper right is Gliese 504b (GJ 504b), a giant planet that is 59 light years from Earth orbiting a solar-type star. But what is this special? Have we not already seen several extrasolar planets directly? Yes, but doing a little cheating. And is that exoplanets we have seen directly, as the system HR 8799, for example-are actually training worlds still shine with their own light, especially in infrared.