Google has created a virtual map of the galaxy

Google has released an application for discover the universe:

The developers of the team Google Data Arts Team, the project created a beautiful Chrome Experiments demo 100,000 stars ", which shows the actual location of more than 100 thousand around the stars, the sun.

The development team Google Data Arts has released a new, experimental application for the browser Chrome, offers a virtual tour of our local stellar neighborhood.

The close pair of stars surrounded by a "mysterious dust"

Astronomers have discovered a curious disk of gas and dust surrounding a system of two stars, the origin of which scientists cannot explain the basis of the standard models of planetary evolution.

A binary star system (with a simple name of SDSS J0303 +0054) is composed of white and red dwarfs, separated by distance of about 700,000 kilometers, the distance between the two stars is a very small value. 

Telescope "Kepler" has completed the basic mission

Space telescope, "Kepler", designed to search for planets outside the solar system, has completed the major part of their mission, but will continue for another four years. The announcement was published on the website NASA.

For three and a half years of the Space Telescope, scientists were able to detect more than two thousand objects candidates for the title of exoplanets. 

Found near the Orion Nebula star cluster

Star cluster, which had previously been measured part of the spectacular Orion Nebula, is actually a separate creature, located in front of the nebula, according to a new study.

Scientists are using the Canada-French-Hawaii Telescope, located in Hawaii, discovered that the star cluster NGC 1980 is a separate group of massive stars in front of the Orion Nebula, which lies at a distance of about 1,500 light-years away and is one of the closest Earth "stellar nurseries". Accumulation unevenly scattered around the star iota Orion, located in the southern part of the "sword" of the constellation Orion.

Scientists have explained the preference of exoplanets

Since the planets in the solar system formed from the same cloud of gas and dust that the star itself, until recently, it was thought that the plane of their orbits must coincide with the plane of rotation of the star. However, beginning in 2008, astronomers began to find more and more exoplanets, which were in highly inclined orbits and even reverse (counter-rotating) with respect to its star.

Curiosity SAM tool examines first piece of solid ground

Pinch of fine sand and dust was the first solid Martian samples placed in the biggest tool of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM.

Inside the rover, SAM determine the chemical composition of samples placed inside it, special attention is paid to the search for fragments, which could indicate the former presence of the world traces of organic life. Curiosity robotic arm delivered to the inlet of the tool SAM, located on the deck of the rover, a sample of Martian soil on 9 November. 

In the galaxy NGC 1365 emerge bright blue supernova

Very bright supernova lit galaxy NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, visible to observers from the Southern Hemisphere. This elegant galaxy lies at a distance of approximately 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. SNe Ia, in question, was opened by Alain Klotz with the telescope of TAROT La Silla Observatory, Chile, October 27, 2012

Supernova 2012fr a vivid, deep blue star, located directly under the center of the galaxy. The author of this picture, Rolf Olsen Bullock, said November 10, 2012, this supernova was close to its maximum brightness, reaching a magnitude in the color bar R, equal to 11.90.