Will there this week, end of the world? Expert evidence

Do we all have to live on Earth Day, and only then comes the very end of the world? After all, even if left alone the Mayan calendar and Nostradamus, there are still scientists from NAS - U.S. National Academy of Sciences, who categorically and, more importantly, specifically declared 21 or September 22, 2012 Sun begins its relentless attack on humans.

Hubble Telescope detected the farthest galaxy and never before seen

The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what is considered the most distant galaxy ever observed a time travel of 13,700 million light years, when our universe was only 500 million years, said Wednesday the space agency NASA.

The image of the galaxy, a red spot in the middle of a huge group of young galaxies, represents the first time the Hubble scrutinizes the border known as the cosmic Dark Age, when the expanding universe went from being a big void to cluster galaxies, stars and gas giant clusters.

Space Shuttle Endeavour began its final flight to a museum

The space shuttle "Endeavour" left Wednesday on his final journey, crossing the United States from east to west (from Florida to California), carried on the fuselage of a Boeing 747.

The takeoff was smooth, a few minutes after the scheduled departure time. Moving the shuttle had been postponed twice already due to bad weather.

Looking for M Theory

If three decades ago Stephen Hawking declared that a "theory of everything" was possible in his last work, "The Grand Design", the famous physicist Leonard Molino appears along with finally bet on the theory M.

They refer to this in a non-conventional covering selected areas of string theories in addition to the "unified field theory" on which still remain skeptical. Not without some irony, Stephen Hawking has declared that "there may not be a final theory to discover after all."

Analemma Rising Sun with Venus transit

An analemma is shaped curve "8" you get to mark the position of the Sun at the same time every day of the year Earth. In this case, the 17 photographs taken at 02:31 TU between 2 April and 16 September are half the analemma curve. The photos look east, toward the rising sun and the Caspian Sea, from the harbor promenade of Baku in Azerbaijan.

Dates mentioned, covering roughly the period between the equinoxes of 2012 (pictured at right), ie, between March 20 and September 22, match the shots in which the Sun was closer the horizon. The solstice in the northern hemisphere summer, occurred on June 20, corresponds to the upper left of the "8" when the sun was at its maximum declination north.

A solar observation opens to the public

The Basque Biodiversity Center, placed in the town Busturia Vizcaya, has organized for this Sunday, in collaboration with Biscayne Astronomical Association; a solar observation will take place outside the center and is open to all public. The day will begin at 11:30 am with a short talk in the auditorium of the center, to explain to people attending some basics about the Sun and clarify questions about what you are going to see later. At noon, start solar observation through telescopes equipped with both white light filter to observe sunspots as hydrogen-alpha filter to see the bumps of the Sun For observation, Biscayne Astronomical Association will make available to the attending a minimum of four telescopes.

Disclosed images of space photography contest

The winner in 2011 showed the phenomenon of Whirlpool Galaxy, and this year, the focus is on the phenomenon of Venus and the transition between the Earth and the Sun.

The fourth version of the Astronomy Photographer competition, sponsored by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, and Night Sky magazine, chose the best images of the universe, which took place in the last contest of 2011 and can be seen from today and until February 5, 2013, at the headquarters of the observatory, in London.