Amazing picture of Saturn and its tiny satellite

Great picture of Saturn was recently acquiring satellite NASA Cassini, moving in an orbit around the gas giant.

Dull point in the upper part of the center of the image - which you could easily miss, taking her spot on the monitor - in fact Saturn Mimas. It is only 396 kilometers in diameter and therefore looks a dwarf compared with its giant parent planet. On close inspection, you can see on one side of Mimas giant crater, making it look like the Death Star from the Star Wars movies.

Fermi space telescope updated software

Software Update for Gamma Ray Observatory "Fermi" will allow the telescope to observe now more high-energy photons than was previously potential.

Gamma Ray Observatory "Fermi" registers the most high-energy events in the Universe since 2008; however, astronomers have long disheartening that many photons pass freely through the detector telescope.

Milky Way's black hole goes bang powerful flash

For unknown reason, the black hole (BH), located in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, regarding once a day generates an X-ray flash. Such outbreaks last for several hours, and their brightness can in some cases exceed the normal brightness of the black hole, even a hundred times. But in February 2012, astronomers using the X-ray Observatory "Chandra", recorded the most powerful flare ever observed on the central black hole in our galaxy known as Sagittarius A *.

The team switched from Mars Curiosity time on earth

After three months on "Martian time," a team of scientists, which supervise NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, went to work on a standard work schedule, "Earth time."

Martian day, called "Salt", lasts for 40 minutes longer than the earth, so the beginning of the shift to the members of the scientific team was shifted a few hours each week in advance. Rover team includes more than 200 engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and about 400 researchers, mainly from other academic institutions.

Unusual lunar crater will help to understand the evolution of craters on Earth

Researchers studying the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies discovered an interesting object for research on the moon.

Scientists engaged in the crater of lunar   who is in the region known as the lunar Sea of Tranquility. The crater is only 2.2 kilometers in diameter, but it is very young - formed only 10 million years ago - and well-preserved.

Supplies to Space Station

A Russian Progress transport ship was on 31 October sent up to the International Space Station with fresh supplies.

Last Wednesday, the 31st October, was a Progress spacecraft re-launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

Less than six hours after the start arrived Progress 49 to the ISS. The number 49 refers to the 49th once a Progress vehicle flying goods to the orbiting outpost in space. 

Methone smooth ovoid moon of Saturn

Previous May Cassini completed the first overview of Methoni (or Methone ), a small moon of Saturn, and exposed that the moon's surface was devoid of craters.

The craters are usually due to impact and so far have been found in all the moons, asteroids and comet nuclei observed at close range. Until the Earth and Titan have craters.