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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Archaeologists have discover the tomb of Queen of the Maya


In Guatemala, archaeologists during the quarry of the ancient Mayan city accidentally discovered the tomb of the Queen. At the interment site found many items of historical value, various vessels, ornaments, plaster images of rulers and the queen herself at a young age.

The tomb containing the remains of the Mayan Queen Kalomte cable discovered by archaeologists on excavations in Guatemala, Latin American broadcast media.

Star cluster for the first time found a pair of black holes

M22 star cluster in our galaxy is located at a distance of 10,000 light-years from Earth. Administer to make a discovery by observing a super-large array radio telescopes located in New Mexico.

U.S. astronomers have detected about two separate black holes in the same star cluster M22, located in the constellation Sagittarius. The paper was published in the journal Nature, a summary of its results ScienceNow.

The International Space projects is foreseen


The new program includes a mixed funding - Rs 1.12 billion from the state budget is 1.46 billion USD - from investors. Most (415 million USD) are going to spend for sensing of the Earth. Another USD 178 million provided for exploration of the solar system and 42 million USD - the use of space in the "interests of national security and defense." In this case, the participation of Ukrainian cosmonauts in the International Space projects is foreseen.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Mars-500, space mission for 500 days


Teams of astronauts may soon start work on the International Space Station is not for 6 months, as before, and for the year, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.

First annual expedition will be experimental and will not until 2015 to carry out a test mission will select two players - one a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut. If all goes well, than will be considering a one-year term for expeditions to the ISS on a regular basis.

Solve the mystery of the missing gas clouds, quasars


Scientists have been able to unpick the mystery arise just a few years of disappearance in 19 quasars gas clouds.

The internal structure of quasars - the ancient galaxies, the luminosity of which are so high that they can be confused with the nearby bright star - has interesting features. When approaching the central black hole accretion disk galaxies substance strongly heated and emits more light than the rest of the stars of the galaxy together. Powerful wind of charged particles generated by the heated gas, thus can take a portion of the incident with the black hole matter.

The database project in space


NASA is going to throw astronauts to the libration point of the Earth-Moon system, thus developing the idea of going beyond low-Earth orbit, already moderately alive in the spacecraft "Orion".

NASA scientists want, based on the experience of international cooperation in the ISS project, to place equipment and astronauts to the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Moon system.

The victim of a supernova explosion


Scientists are trying to way down the star, which died in the explosion of a supernova that transpires in the past year.

The outbreak of the star was found May 31, 2011 in a rather famous Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), which lies at a distance of 23 million light years from our own Milky Way galaxy. Supernova explosions occur when the supply of fuel massive stars, stellar, completing the life cycle comes to an end, and the stars begin to collapse, turning eventually into a neutron star or black hole.