Star cluster for the first time found a pair of black holes

M22 star cluster in our galaxy is located at a distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth. Administer to make a discovery by observing a super-large array radio telescopes located in New Mexico.

U.S. astronomers have detected about two separate black holes in the same star cluster M22, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The paper was published in the journal Nature, a summary of its results ScienceNow.

The International Space projects is foreseen

The new program includes a mixed funding - Rs 1.12 billion from the state budget is 1.46 billion USD - from investors. Most (415 million USD) are going to spend for sensing of the Earth. Another USD 178 million provided for exploration of the solar system and 42 million USD - the use of space in the "interests of national security and defense." In this case, the participation of Ukrainian cosmonauts in the International Space projects is foreseen.

Mars-500, space mission for 500 days

Teams of astronauts may soon start work on the International Space Station is not for 6 months, as before, and for the year, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.

First annual expedition will be experimental and will not until 2015 to carry out a test mission will select two players - one a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut. If all goes well, than will be considering a one-year term for expeditions to the ISS on a regular basis.

Solve the mystery of the missing gas clouds, quasars

Scientists have been able to unpick the mystery arise just a few years of disappearance in 19 quasars gas clouds.

The internal structure of quasars - the ancient galaxies, the luminosity of which are so high that they can be confused with the nearby bright star - has interesting features. When approaching the central black hole accretion disk galaxies substance strongly heated and emits more light than the rest of the stars of the galaxy together. Powerful wind of charged particles generated by the heated gas, thus can take a portion of the incident with the black hole matter.

The database project in space

NASA is going to throw astronauts to the libration point of the Earth-Moon system, thus developing the idea of going beyond low-Earth orbit, already moderately alive in the spacecraft "Orion".

NASA scientists want, based on the experience of international cooperation in the ISS project, to place equipment and astronauts to the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Moon system.

The victim of a supernova explosion

Scientists are trying to way down the star, which died in the explosion of a supernova that transpires in the past year.

The outbreak of the star was found May 31, 2011 in a rather famous Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), which lies at a distance of 23 million light years from our own Milky Way galaxy. Supernova explosions occur when the supply of fuel massive stars, stellar, completing the life cycle comes to an end, and the stars begin to collapse, turning eventually into a neutron star or black hole.

The shore of an ancient Martian water channel

The rover Curiosity found some extraordinary features on the surface of the Red Planet that have a strong similarity to the shores of the land waterways.

For example, today's image shows the small ledge of rock that most likely formed by water erosion circulating underneath. The outgoing texture appears to be a sedimentary conglomerate, ie dried debris numerous smaller rocks that stuck together.