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Friday, June 8, 2012

The survey Ultra Vista and reveal more than 200,000 galaxies


These new images of a small part of the sky, which may go unrecognized, the survey Ultra Vista and reveal more than 200,000 galaxies. It's just a part of a large collection of images of all the polls VISTA, fully processed, now THAT is making available to astronomers around the world. Ultra Vista is a hidden treasure that is being used to study distant galaxies in the early universe as well as many other scientific projects. 

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Where is the center of the universe?


Where is the center of the universe? Well, the answer is confusing: nowhere in particular and also in all...
To understand these things have to make one thing clear about the famous Big Bang: the famous big bang matter filled the empty space, in fact it was a very rapid expansion of space itself, which before the "bang" was fold completatamente on itself at a point of infinite density that scientists call unique . 

The Universe


Galactic survey
At the beginning of the mission, Spitzer will hold a series of imaging surveys in the mid and far infrared. Census Deep and a small region of space, including one centered on the Hubble Deep Field (English) , study the young and distant universe with redshifts of about 5, which corresponds to about 12 billion years.

Every planet must orbit around a star


In recent times the wandering planets, which is the name often these unique worlds without star have gone from a rarity bordering on the impossible to be an unexpectedly abundant class of planets.
 Fresh investigate now provide an new revelation: Not only are there no star planets, bound only to its galaxy, but even without galaxy may have planets. These amazing worlds, formed within a galaxy may leave due to move at a colossal speed, and could make the trip alone or with their star.

Infrared Astronomy

The technical approaching of Spitzer is attached in four basic physical values that define the importance of IR in the investigation of astrophysical phenomena. The infrared region is part of the electromagnetic spectrum and ranges from 1 micron (near infrared) to 200 microns (far infrared). Human eyes are only sensitive to light between 0.4 and 0.7 microns.
Infrared observations expose cool state of matter.
Solid objects in space - from the size of a grain of interstellar dust (less than a micron) to the giant planets - have temperatures ranging from 3 to 1500 degrees Kelvin (K). 

The Star conflict will be with Andromeda


Shock will grow a new galaxy, which sum the mass of the Milky Way and Andromeda, where the Sun, according to observations made ​​during the last five years with the Hubble Space Telescope. The vast majority of stars survives the impact, but will be in different orbits about the center of the galaxy. The Sun, according to simulations from the Hubble observations, blown away in the quiet region of the Milky Way where you are now and remain on the periphery of the new galaxy, as the authors have announced the investigation in a wheel press organized by NASA.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

An elliptical spiral galaxy changed

The U.S. space agency NASA captured the evolution from an elliptical spiral galaxy, a finding that will help to understand galaxy evolution. With help of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer from NASA, the researchers found how the galaxy NGC 3801 is losing some of the cold gas inside symptom of this change. It has long been known that gas-rich spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are contracted to create elliptical galaxies as observed in the study, with a small population of stars.The process that guides the great transformation of young galaxies spiral to elliptical galaxies is the rapid loss of cold gas, which serves as fuel for the formation of new stars. Experts believe they have found that feature in the NGC 3801.