End of mission for Kounotori 3

This morning at approximately 5:30 UTC the third space freighter H-II of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ended its mission decayed in the atmosphere, as planned.

He had docked to the International Space Station since last July 27.

The boundary of the solar system resists the Voyager 1

A study by Johns Hopkins University of Maryland (USA) completed that the probe Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, is as close to the heliopause (the boundary where the solar wind disappears and begins the interstellar medium ) as scientists believed.

Voyager 1 is now in the heliosheath, the region anterior to the heliopause, where the solar wind slows and begins to show the effects of the interstellar medium.

Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module on a postcard collection

Of all the details that NASA visualize for the first moon landing in history that of the shooting was in the background. There are few photos that Armstrong, the first man on the moon, can be seen. Fortunately people like Tom Dahl who used various shots of the lunar activity conducted by Armstrong and Aldrin, to compose this spectacular panorama. Based on a very limited artwork has achieved a truly impressive result, which captures the immense and desolate lunar surface and placed in a marginal but visible, the shadow of who was the first human to walk on the soil.

The planets can form in the Galactic Center

Due to the insensitive environmental conditions, the planets could not form near the galactic center. However, new research conducted by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that it is possible to form planets in these vortices cosmic.

                               

As evidence point to the recent discovery of a cloud of hydrogen and helium galactic heading downtown. They argue that this cloud represents the remains of a shattered protoplanetary disk orbiting a star invisible.

Dawn has the Giant Asteroid Vesta Departed

Dawn Mission Status Report

PASADENA, Calif. - Mission controllers received confirmation NASA's Dawn spacecraft that has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second destination, the dwarf planet Ceres.

Dawn departed from Vesta at about 11:26 pm PDT on Sept... 4 (2:26 am EDT on Sept.. 5). Communications from the spacecraft via NASA's Deep Space Network That confirmed the departure and the spacecraft is now traveling Toward Ceres.

A Family Portrait of Galaxies

Two very different galaxies attribute in this family portrait taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, together forming a exclusive galaxy pair called Arp 116. The image shows the dramatic differences in size, structure and color spiral and elliptical galaxies between.

Arp 116 is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy Messier known as 60, and a much smaller spiral galaxy, NGC 4647.

Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun

On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust layers with that reproduce to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Mars's north pole to variations in Solar insulation on Mars, the first dated THUS climate Established history for Mars, where ice and dust accumulation has been driven by variations in insulation. The results are published in the scientific journal, Icarus.