Dark energy has earned the most powerful digital camera

Eight billion years ago, the light rays create by distant galaxies started their way towards the ground. Now, on top of the mountain in Chile, these rays will be fixed with the help of the most powerful in the world of digital cameras. Among other things, the light of distant galaxies can help scientists understand the universe still be expanded and, if so, how concentrated the process.

Astronomers have calculated the ancestors of the Sun

Two astronomers at the Geneva Observatory, and Georges Mathieu Gunel Maine, recently declare that they were able to build out what looked like "ancestors" of our sun. As you know, the birth of stars is in the depth of the gas-dust clouds, "metals" which are the remains of already dead and exploding stars that were ejected into interstellar space and the force of the explosion that ultimately form these same gas and dust clouds.

Astronomical unit has been changed

At the meeting in Beijing, the International Astronomical Union conference, present her scientists decided that would make a redefinition of the astronomical unit. One astronomical unit will continue to be equal to the distance from the Earth to the Sun, but at the same time, scientists now will be secure the monotonous exact evaluation. Now assumed the value of one astronomical unit is equal to 149597870700 meters.

Investigated such a supernova in 1604

Ray space telescope NASA Chandra, began to study the outstanding traces of an antique supernova explosion, which he observed by Io Gunn Kepler .

For the first time, a mention about this supernova are dated 1604. When the night sky is a new star in the place where previously there was none. This event recorded many of the astronomers of the time, including Johannes Kepler.

Planet of diamonds

U.S. scientists have found a diamond weigh several quadrillion carat. 

True, it is located far away from the Earth, and exceeds it in size by half.

The astronomers studied the planet that orbits a star that is visible to the naked eye, is twice the size of Earth and is essentially a giant diamond.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 pass by Earth at a distance of 95,000 km

An asteroid the size of a house will pass very close to Earth today, as scientists have caution. However, in spite of the fact that the space is very close, the scientists insist that there is no risk of collision with our planet.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 held at a distance of only 95,000 km from the Earth, which is about a quarter of the distance to the Moon at its maximum proximity to the Earth. This asteroid was discovered by astronomers October 4. NASA scientists will be watching it from the lab Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Russia to land on the moon in 2015

Russian scientists are going to launch a mission to the moon routine. The project, scheduled for 2015, is planned to confirm that Russian science is still able to create devices and send them to other cosmic bodies.

In 2015, Russian scientists plan to make the descent module landed on the moon.