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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Complete rotation of Jupiter, by Damian Peach


Damian Peach is the most accepted and planetary astrophotography while most "hated" the world. Admired by the incredible images it achieves. Hated because, although some approaches you, no one can its level. And it is very secretive and does not share their methods.

There is much speculation about how it does. Legend has it that gives access Celestron factory and can thus choose the best SC. 

A halo of NGC 6164


The attractive emanation nebula NGC 6164 was created by a strange, hot and bright star of type O , about 40 times more massive than the Sun Vista here in the center of the cosmic cloud, the star has an age of 3-4000000 years, within three or four million years will end its life in a supernova explosion .

With a diameter of about 4 light years away, the nebula has a bipolar symmetry, 

Friday, October 26, 2012

Globular clusters show: how galaxies come in several waves


The origin of most galaxies is not uniform, but run in several stages. This is a study of over 900 globular clusters by an international research team. The star clusters from the dawn of galaxy formation to occur mostly in two different chemical variants, the astronomers reported in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society".

"This indicates presence of two types of globular clusters suggest that most large galaxies have gone through two phases of star formation through", Christopher Usher of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia write Hawthorn and his colleagues. 

The sun


A thick tome on the sun, I thought, as I chosen up the package from the post, and in fact, it is a book that is all about the sun, turning the central star of our solar system. It is inconsistently the most misunderstood today star we know and the reference star is still for many astronomical state variables such as mass or luminosity.

If you expect good information about them - it's really about time that once again a book on the current results and findings of solar research is published - will be disappointed by the book, 

43rd Week - The cometary star forming region G110-13


The northern Milky Way in the area over cipher Cassiopeia to Peruses is rich in interstellar matter. There are not only bright H II regions, but also reflection nebula and a lot of dark dust and molecular clouds. The current Academy of Sciences demonstrates a very nice example of a combination of molecular cloud and reflection nebula, namely, a brownish, elongated cloud in the border area Andromeda and Cassiopeia. 

Pulsars as detectors for gravitational waves


So far, they escape despite kilometer-scale detector systems of discovery: gravitational waves, vibrations of space-time whose survival Einstein forecast in his theory of general relativity. However, the detection of gravitational waves could soon be possible. And not with special detectors, but with ordinary radio telescopes that measure the arrival time of the radio signals from pulsars. The vibrations are there but not - as has been mostly assumed - as a sort of background noise, but it dominate individual signals of individual sources.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

"Giant eye" for studying the Milky Way


Mission Gaia - a unique space observatory of the European Space Agency, which will make the survey of billions of stars, the Milky Way, built-in digital camera with a resolution of 1 billion pixels. This "giant eye" explores the galaxy and makes a detailed map of the distribution of stars in it.