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Monday, July 29, 2013

Astronomers are digging under the brown dwarfs

Astronomers have focused all their attention on brown dwarfs, trying to uncover all of their secrets. Despite the fact that brown dwarfs are not the full-fledged stars, and substars and occupy an intermediate niche between these massive stars and planets, they cause enormous interest among scientists. Astronomers from around the world are trying to figure out what is more like brown dwarfs: the planets or stars. What a performance they made more or are they still are an entirely different stage of development than the traditional brown dwarfs and planets. In addition, the astronomers looking for protoplanetary disks around brown dwarfs, and the worlds that are formed in these disks.

Hubble Space Telescope photographed a few nearby galaxies

This galaxy is like a giant funnel that sucks in everything that falls into it. According to the scientists, "Whirlpool" - is a classic spiral galaxy diameter of 100 thousand light-years. It is a favorite subject of Earth observation from amateur astronomers, since it has contrasting branches, because of which it is perfectly visible through a telescope.

Hubble has also managed to remove the flash bright star in the galaxy M59 (pictured below). 

Sunday, July 28, 2013

The bottom of the path from the Martian mountains "Point Solander"

The rover Opportunity starts climbing the hilly area and is making his way to his first mountain-called "Point Solander." This will be the first "mountain" climbing to the rover. As expected, scientists, the view from the surface of the hill must be impressive.

Currently, the rover has done only a few short "steps" to the south, from his landing on the north side, and so far passed through a relatively flat plain along the rim of the crater rim of Endeavour. The rover is at a distance of only about 180 meters from the mountain, "Solander Point."