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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A new image of NGC 6362 star field


The European Southern Observatory (ESO) today released a new image of the globular cluster NGC 6362; a little known field stars located in the group of Ara consists of tens of thousands of stars very old and others looking surprisingly young.

The history of life on Earth in a minute


Our Story in 1 Minute that compiles various documentaries and shows us the origin of life on our planet in just over a minute, nothing more nothing less. Includes the formation of our planet and the bombing primitive, and ends with the space conquest.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

GTC to unravel the mystery of the atmosphere of one of the 'super-Earths'


The 'super-Earths', with a mass 10 times greater than Earth's, are good candidates to find life outside our solar system.

Located 42 light years away, GJ 1214b is one of the most studied because it can be seen from ground-based telescopes with relative ease

The data obtained with the GTC by IAC researchers support the idea that GJ1214b's atmosphere is made up of metal.

Monday, October 29, 2012

During the formation of the Moon was attacked by asteroids


That was the motive that the visible side of the moon almost completely covered by seas and plains landforms, and on the other side a lot more hills and uplands. This was proved by Japanese researchers led by Ryosuke Nakamura of the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology in Tsukuba.

Where to look for the "perfect storm"?


Many of the population of the Earth are often not even aware that beyond the Earth, on the surface of other planets - and not only, by the way, the planets - the solar system sometimes furious incredible storms.
Over the past decade, the spacecraft was a lot of pictures of the amazing extraterrestrial phenomena on the scale exceeding everything that we can watch on their home planet.

ISS threatening cloud of debris


Recall that a Proton-M, which was supposed to deliver in orbit two satellites, could not do so because of problems in the upper stage. Accident occurred at the beginning of August, and has since drifted upper stage in low-Earth orbit. But on August 16 he exploded, creating a cloud of 500 fragments. 

Vesta close-up the machine Dawn


Last July, the crack of dawn probe entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, the second largest asteroid main asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. To date, Dawn helped create 3-D map more than 80 percent of the surface of Vesta.

The most interesting thing that we found out with the machine Dawn, - is that the news is the core of nickel and iron, such as the core of Mercury, Earth and Mars.