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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Stunning New Photo of Andromeda Galaxy Taken by New High-Res Instrument

A new portrait of the Milky Way's neighbor, Andromeda, shows our twin galaxy in a whole new light thanks to a new instrument on Japan's Subaru telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

The instrument, called the Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC), provides sharp images of the cosmos across a wide field of view. 

Monday, July 29, 2013

Slingatron just throw cargo into orbit

Mankind has more than half a century sends a rocket into space, but it costs a lot of money. Therefore, there is a new idea that should simplify things.

Company HyperV Technologies Corp. Virginia through Kickstarter hopes to raise money to build a high-speed mechanical accelerator masspod name Slingatron. 

Virtual glasses and drones together in Oculus Rift FPV

Since started shipping the first sets of Oculus Rift, in a number of creative models of virtual reality glasses together with other devices to form a completely new devices.

Although most have done a good job of immersing users into the virtual environment, the latest project from Intuitive Aerial can provide unique insights into the real world. 

Wind Vault House catches the wind

Keeping cool in tropical Singapore could be the whole problem, even if someone decides to turn to expensive and wasteful air conditioners to complete.

So when Wallflower Architecture and Design began to create Wind Vault House in the island nation, the company has established an elaborate system of passive cooling.
                                     
A bit like a store Wind Vault House to be honest, so far very attractive building. 

Astronomers are digging under the brown dwarfs

Astronomers have focused all their attention on brown dwarfs, trying to uncover all of their secrets. Despite the fact that brown dwarfs are not the full-fledged stars, and substars and occupy an intermediate niche between these massive stars and planets, they cause enormous interest among scientists. Astronomers from around the world are trying to figure out what is more like brown dwarfs: the planets or stars. What a performance they made more or are they still are an entirely different stage of development than the traditional brown dwarfs and planets. In addition, the astronomers looking for protoplanetary disks around brown dwarfs, and the worlds that are formed in these disks.

Hubble Space Telescope photographed a few nearby galaxies

This galaxy is like a giant funnel that sucks in everything that falls into it. According to the scientists, "Whirlpool" - is a classic spiral galaxy diameter of 100 thousand light-years. It is a favorite subject of Earth observation from amateur astronomers, since it has contrasting branches, because of which it is perfectly visible through a telescope.

Hubble has also managed to remove the flash bright star in the galaxy M59 (pictured below). 

Sunday, July 28, 2013

The bottom of the path from the Martian mountains "Point Solander"

The rover Opportunity starts climbing the hilly area and is making his way to his first mountain-called "Point Solander." This will be the first "mountain" climbing to the rover. As expected, scientists, the view from the surface of the hill must be impressive.

Currently, the rover has done only a few short "steps" to the south, from his landing on the north side, and so far passed through a relatively flat plain along the rim of the crater rim of Endeavour. The rover is at a distance of only about 180 meters from the mountain, "Solander Point."