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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Known a new type of cosmic collision

The American space agency NASA was able to photograph the outer encounter that is fairly new to the rare species. Fix the collision of black holes and neutron stars orbiting telescope helped scientists "Hubble." A new type of cosmic collision or rather its product called "kilonova".

Picture of the phenomenon was obtained kilonova "Hubble" July 3, 2013. It is shown below.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter discovered "cemetery" of comets

Colombian province of astronomers from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, observing space objects found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter cluster of comets, which over millions of years show no signs of activity.

However, as scientists believe, under certain conditions, "dormant" comets can "come alive".

Star leaves the galaxy like a cork bottle

Astronomers have discovered a super fast double star, which flies out of our galaxy at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per second.

Hyperspeed stars were first seen by people in the early 2000s: their speed relative to the center of the Galaxy reached 500 kilometers per second, and this rate was enough to "Get rid" of the star attraction of the system and go to a free intergalactic space.