Curiosity rover sent to Earth a self-portrait

Curiosity, which is already three months traveling on the Red Planet, sent to Earth is a typical tourist photo - self-portrait in a landscape. There you can see the Martian sky, sandy valley and the mountain range of the crater Gale. The question is - who is shooting?

Scientists have recorded the disintegration of a comet Hergenrother/168P

Comet Hergenrother/168P recently entered the inner solar system. As amateur astronomers and professionals similar were watching a giant ball of ice and dirt for the past several weeks of intensive matter emitted from large portions of the comet dust. We now know that the comet Hergenrother/168P disintegrated.

A new type of quantum matter with crystal properties

Using laser beams, scientists have created a new type of quantum matter with crystalline properties.

How insanely expensive diamonds, and quite affordable graphite composed of atoms of the same element - carbon. Fine - but significantly affects the properties of these substances and their value - the difference between the two materials is the geometry of packing of atoms. In this case, the same substance can be both graphite and diamond. In the normal world ... But in the quantum world have its own laws.

"Guardian of the weather"

The first of a series of satellites of the Small satellites NASA's Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, or SAMPEX, was launched on July 3, 1992 for the study of the host range of the subdivision surrounding the Earth, and acting on them cosmic rays. Lived much longer than suggested by its planned mission length of three years, and always provided all its life valuable information professionals Space Weather Mission SAMPEX now close to completion.

Mystery of the fourth planet

50 years ago, November 1, 1962

The Soviet space station...

Mars is on the border of the so-called "habitable zone" - the climatic conditions on the planet Earth is much harder, but still acceptable for organic life forms. Summer on the equator at noon the temperature is +20 ° C, the long winter it can drop below minus 140 ° C - twice colder very middle of winter in Antarctica.

Galaxies eat each other, not to die

The information galaxies eat each other, known to astronomers for a long time. Scientists for years to collect evidence of such a “galactic cannibalism”, and a neat coil, located inside the nearby elliptical galaxies, are yet another indication that such processes are very common in the universe.

X-ray telescope of the new generation is ready to run

Those who love to watch the sun, usually pay attention mainly to large outburst and tarnish on it. But on our star and events are smaller, so-called nanovspyshki. To observe these events in the coming days, in early November, will start a new NASA space telescope named FOXSI (Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager).

The telescope will be located in the meteorological rocket, and his journey takes about 6 minutes, during which he will have to see nanovspyshki as possible.