Discovery of a diamond planet

A new planet, made of a material alike to diamond ultradense, was discovered by a group of Australian scientists. It could be the most valuable rock sighted but never too far from the reach of explorer’s golddigger. At about 400,000 light years from Earth, the planet is located about one-eighth of the distance that separates us from the center of the Milky Way. Believed to be the only remnant of what was once a giant star in our own Milky Way.

That star, is now a pulsar, a type of neutron star characterized by very intense emit radiation, which was discovered in 2009. Its diameter is only 20 kilometers. Australian scientists found that the radiation was interrupted every two hours and 10 minutes, a sign that another celestial body orbiting around it. After observation with large telescopes in the UK and Hawaii (USA), discover the new planet.

Brightness

The planet appears to be smaller than Jupiter but has more mass. The scientists, who published their discovery in the journal Science, believe it is the densest planet ever discovered and composed mainly of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists believe that carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this exotic diamond planet would.

His theory is that high environmental pressure caused his core crystallized carbon into diamond. What is not clear is how she should look closely watched. Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester told Reuters that can only speculate: "I imagine that there would be a picture of a very shiny object."

Discovered a planet 36 light years away could harbor life

A planet with features that make it suitable for harboring life was discovered by a group of astronomers who used a powerful telescope in Chile. He has been called HD85512b and is about 36 light-years away. Its discovery by European astronomers announced a Monday and the scientific community considers it as already known planet other than Earth most likely to contain life.

The theft of a million dollars in the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico

Sometimes the study and observation of the universe is very Earthlings encounter problems, as with the Large Millimeter Telescope located on top of an extinct volcano at 4580 meters altitude in Puebla, east of Mexico. Recently the Attorney (prosecutor) General's Office (PGR) arrested two youths who are accused of stealing between 126 and 128 subpanels aluminum and nickel that would be installed on the device.

A billion pixels for a billion stars

E2v has worked for more than five years to produce all of the Gaia CCD. I doubt those going to buy a can of paint to store hardware chain Homebase has in the English town of Chelmsford think too much about what happens in the factory adjoining art. It is the headquarters of e2v; a company that gained fame after World War II manufactured lamps for television industry but now produces camera sensors for some of the most important space missions.

The key to the origin of the universe could be under water

The telescopes are composed of a series of strings coupled to glass beads. Soon humanity will have many more "eyes" scanning the universe in search of particles that we can solve the existing enigmas surrounding its origin. The high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be detected only by a few hidden devices in the most unexpected places: Inside Mountains, underground, underwater, and even in solid ice.

Scientists use them to unlock the mysteries of the universe, to know the nature of dark matter, the evolution of stars and the origin of cosmic rays.

Chilean telescope exposes the largest group of galaxies

An international team of astronomers discovered the group of young galaxies in the Universe largest telescope thanks to VTL (Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope), the European Southern Observatory (ESO, for its acronym in English), located in the Chilean desert Atacama.

Technically, scientists called their discovery ACT-CL J0102-4915, but I know so familiar with the name El Gordo, Spanish for having discovered in Chile and in honor of his size. More than 7,000 million light years from Earth, this galaxy cluster is the largest ever seen in the distant universe? It was discovered early.

One possible explanation for UFOs (finally)

Some unidentified phenomena like UFOs, could be explained by a light or electrical phenomenon little known, says Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes.The scientist made a detailed study of an unusual event occurred in 2006 when a large number of meteors were seen in the sky over Brisbane. His appearance came while a bright green object was seen rolling down the nearby mountains.