During the formation of the Moon was attacked by asteroids

That was the motive that the visible side of the moon almost completely covered by seas and plains landforms, and on the other side a lot more hills and uplands. This was proved by Japanese researchers led by Ryosuke Nakamura of the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology in Tsukuba.

Where to look for the "perfect storm"?

Many of the population of the Earth are often not even aware that beyond the Earth, on the surface of other planets - and not only, by the way, the planets - the solar system sometimes furious incredible storms.

Over the past decade, the spacecraft was a lot of pictures of the amazing extraterrestrial phenomena on the scale exceeding everything that we can watch on their home planet.

ISS threatening cloud of debris

Recall that a Proton-M, which was supposed to deliver in orbit two satellites, could not do so because of problems in the upper stage. Accident occurred at the beginning of August, and has since drifted upper stage in low-Earth orbit. But on August 16 he exploded, creating a cloud of 500 fragments. 

Vesta close-up the machine Dawn

Last July, the crack of dawn probe entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, the second largest asteroid main asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. To date, Dawn helped create 3-D map more than 80 percent of the surface of Vesta.

The most interesting thing that we found out with the machine Dawn, - is that the news is the core of nickel and iron, such as the core of Mercury, Earth and Mars. 

The largest fully steerable radio telescope built in Asia

In Shanghai's Dongxiang district, on the territory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, built the largest fully steerable radio telescope in Asia. This plant, with a diameter of 65 meters, is the fourth largest in the world.

Usually, projects of this magnitude take 8 to 10 years, but the Chinese have always been known for the fact that they can work quickly. 

Our galaxy caught for dinner: Milky Way star absorbs

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers found that the torrent of stars, which is supposed to symbolize the remains of ancient star clusters, slowly absorbed with you our own Milky Way galaxy.

A team of astronomers from Yale University led by Ana Bonaca, masters and lead author of the new study, had previously noted that the Milky Way has a tendency to absorb dwarf galaxies, 

Discovered the most rapidly rotating superdense star

Scientists have found evidence of what may be the fastest moving pulsar. During the observation using three different telescopes - NASA's X-ray Observatory "Chandra", ESA XMM-Newton, located in space, and a radio telescope Parks in Australia.

X-ray observations, "Chandra" and XMM-Newton were combined with infrared data of the project 2MASS optical data and digital images of the sky.