Lord of ethylene storm

Megashtorma force on Saturn enough to pulverize the Earth

In 2010, astronomers have marked the beginning of a massive vortex of Saturn, which is a tight ring surrounded the planet. He was the largest of the stratospheric vortex ever discovered in the solar system.

Giant satellite tracking station ESA ready for opening

One of the most complex in the world stations for satellite tracking, preparing for his discovery in Malargue, Argentina, 1,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires. The new station will afford dependable communications with missions traveling through the solar system in the hundreds of millions of miles from Earth.

The new station of the European Space Agency (ESA), located near the town of Malargue, Mendoza province, after its opening, will join the work of the existing stations located in Spain and Australia.

Curiosity rover sent to Earth a self-portrait

Curiosity, which is already three months traveling on the Red Planet, sent to Earth is a typical tourist photo - self-portrait in a landscape. There you can see the Martian sky, sandy valley and the mountain range of the crater Gale. The question is - who is shooting?

Scientists have recorded the disintegration of a comet Hergenrother/168P

Comet Hergenrother/168P recently entered the inner solar system. As amateur astronomers and professionals similar were watching a giant ball of ice and dirt for the past several weeks of intensive matter emitted from large portions of the comet dust. We now know that the comet Hergenrother/168P disintegrated.

A new type of quantum matter with crystal properties

Using laser beams, scientists have created a new type of quantum matter with crystalline properties.

How insanely expensive diamonds, and quite affordable graphite composed of atoms of the same element - carbon. Fine - but significantly affects the properties of these substances and their value - the difference between the two materials is the geometry of packing of atoms. In this case, the same substance can be both graphite and diamond. In the normal world ... But in the quantum world have its own laws.

"Guardian of the weather"

The first of a series of satellites of the Small satellites NASA's Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, or SAMPEX, was launched on July 3, 1992 for the study of the host range of the subdivision surrounding the Earth, and acting on them cosmic rays. Lived much longer than suggested by its planned mission length of three years, and always provided all its life valuable information professionals Space Weather Mission SAMPEX now close to completion.

Mystery of the fourth planet

50 years ago, November 1, 1962

The Soviet space station...

Mars is on the border of the so-called "habitable zone" - the climatic conditions on the planet Earth is much harder, but still acceptable for organic life forms. Summer on the equator at noon the temperature is +20 ° C, the long winter it can drop below minus 140 ° C - twice colder very middle of winter in Antarctica.

Galaxies eat each other, not to die

The information galaxies eat each other, known to astronomers for a long time. Scientists for years to collect evidence of such a “galactic cannibalism”, and a neat coil, located inside the nearby elliptical galaxies, are yet another indication that such processes are very common in the universe.

X-ray telescope of the new generation is ready to run

Those who love to watch the sun, usually pay attention mainly to large outburst and tarnish on it. But on our star and events are smaller, so-called nanovspyshki. To observe these events in the coming days, in early November, will start a new NASA space telescope named FOXSI (Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager).

The telescope will be located in the meteorological rocket, and his journey takes about 6 minutes, during which he will have to see nanovspyshki as possible.

Titan glows in the dark

Picture of the largest of Saturn's Titan, made ​​by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the dark, showed a mysterious glow of Titan's atmosphere.

If you were standing on the surface of Titan, you would not notice this glow, as his power is only a few millionths of a watt. The scientists were able to fix this weak light with a camera apparatus Cassini, allowing you to take pictures with a long exposure.

Mountains Nereid indicate "glacial past" Mars

High-resolution stereo camera orbiting Mars the Mars Express took pictures of the mountain range of Nereid at a distance of almost 380 kilometers north-east of the crater Hook.

Affects its magnificence mountainous terrain surrounding the Nereids, stretched along the northern edge of the basin Argir, one of the largest shock depressions on Mars.

Life is to be found where there is an asteroid belt

Rebecca Martin of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, developed a rather wasteful theory suggests that, for the formation of life on Earth in the solar system should positively be an asteroid belt, and stringently, where it is now.

Observations exoplanetary systems show that the so-called warm dust, which, apparently, the result of asteroid is concentrated in areas close to the "snow line." This may be because it was her form giant planets; the light elements are not able to condense on the surface of a celestial body, whether it is closer to the Sun.

The future belongs to microbes

The last form of life on Earth would fall by 2.8 billion years, the sun burned dying - red giant. About a billion years before the only living things on the planet will remain single-celled organisms, hiding in isolated hot and salty waters.

This gloomy prognosis for life on Earth, but a ray of light for those who are looking for life on other planets. After thus renewed hope its discovery in places previously considered inhospitable.

"Diamond" planet is 40 light-years away in the constellation of Cancer

A group of American and French astronomers discovered a planet whose surface consists mainly of graphite and diamond.Which called 55 Cancri e, orbits the star, which is visible to the naked eye. It is located 40 light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.

The planet orbits the star so quickly that year it takes less than 18 hours.

What occur to the very first stars in the universe?

Most distant and bright supernova, known to scientists today, probably happens in the explosions when the universe was much younger - just after the Big Bang.

What both these unusually bright and slowly fading. These properties are consistent with what is known as a supernova with the pair instability, a rare explosion mechanism, which is expected to occur with massive stars, is substantially free of metals. 

Three star charts on exoplanets

In these three celestial star charts grouped all available information about exoplanets currently available. Each of them should be extended to enlarge:

1. This letter highlights the sky where the stars have been detected potentially habitable exoplanet. Each is represented by corresponding brightness.

The presence of massive extrasolar planets around star Fomalhaut

Nearest star Fomalhaut has a massive exoplanet, reported NASA scientists after the second study using space telescope "Hubble".

Back in 2008, astronomers announced that they had discovered a planet called Fomalhaut B and shrouded in dust orbiting star Fomalhaut at a distance of 25 light years from Earth.

The orbit of the ISS has been raised by about 1 kilometer

The rectification of the orbit of the International Space Station to avoid a impact with debris U.S. satellite saints held on November 1.

The experts at NASA and the Russian Mission Control Center said they used to contrive the engine docked cargo ship.

Earlier in the Mission Control Center said that the threat of a collision with debris ISS no American satellite. 

Ghost Nebula

This ghostly image was obtained in August 2009 with the vision of wide-field Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. This cloud of cosmic dust, called vdB 141, is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 1,200 light-years away. 

Chasing clouds on Venus

Often spotted clouds blue sky of Earth, but Venus is never clear. This planet is permanently surrounded by a solid covering of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, about 20 kilometers thick.

This image, taken by the European spacecraft Venus Express on December 8, 2011 when it was at about 30,000 miles from Earth, shows the top of the clouds of Venus in ultraviolet wavelengths.

NASA Release: Suomi NPP Captures Night View of U.S. Before Hurricane Sandy's Landfall

Axis Hurricane Sandy made a historic landfall on the New Jersey coast during the night of October 29, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA / NOAA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of the storm. This image provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a composite or verschillende satellite passes over North America jobs 18 hours before Sandy's landfall.

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.

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.

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. 

The largest fully steerable radio telescope built in Asia

In Shanghai's Dongxiang district, on the territory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, built the largest fully steerable radio telescope in Asia. This plant, with a diameter of 65 meters, is the fourth largest in the world.

Usually, projects of this magnitude take 8 to 10 years, but the Chinese have always been known for the fact that they can work quickly. 

Our galaxy caught for dinner: Milky Way star absorbs

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers found that the torrent of stars, which is supposed to symbolize the remains of ancient star clusters, slowly absorbed with you our own Milky Way galaxy.

A team of astronomers from Yale University led by Ana Bonaca, masters and lead author of the new study, had previously noted that the Milky Way has a tendency to absorb dwarf galaxies, 

Discovered the most rapidly rotating superdense star

Scientists have found evidence of what may be the fastest moving pulsar. During the observation using three different telescopes - NASA's X-ray Observatory "Chandra", ESA XMM-Newton, located in space, and a radio telescope Parks in Australia.

X-ray observations, "Chandra" and XMM-Newton were combined with infrared data of the project 2MASS optical data and digital images of the sky.

Trillions of comets collide around Fomalhaut

Dust ring around the star Fomalhaut is created in the collision of comets thousands every day.

Located only at a distance of 25 light years from Earth, Fomalhaut is a fairly young star, twice as massive as our sun, and discovered in 1980 in a large amount of dust.

Now, astronomers using a telescope Herschel discovered a dense strip of dusty materials, about half of which is water ice at the edges of the system.

Enormous image of the center of the Milky Way

An international team of astronomers has created a directory enclose more than 84 million stars in the Milky Way. The basis for this proposal is a huge picture of the size of nine gigapixel, which amounted to an infrared VISTA telescope data Chilean observatory.

Image of stars the size is nine meters long and seven meters wide.

Roberto Saito, the lead researcher of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile considers that this work will help to better understand the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies.

Cassini sees giant energy flow on Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recorded the effects of an ancient giant storm on Saturn. New data pointed to record conflict in the upper atmosphere of the planet, which existed for a long time after the in evidence signs of the storm had disappeared, and that the storm was actually much stronger than previously thought.

In the analysis of data obtained from the composite infrared spectrometer apparatus Cassini, discovered that a powerful electrical discharges that occurred during the storm, Saturn's stratosphere warmed to 83 Kelvin above its normal temperature. 

The giant exoplanet zombie rises from the dead

Huge extrasolar planet, which many astronomers thought the "dead and buried", came back to life, researchers say.

A new study of the results of observations made ​​space telescope "Hubble", found lying around nearby star Fomalhaut us really exists giant exoplanet, which scientists dubbed exoplanets, "zombies." These findings oppose the results of other recent studies claiming that the so-called "planet" - known as Fomalhaut b - is actually a huge cloud of dust.

The smallest supermassive black hole

Who of us do not ever remember the Old New Year with a sad joy, and now we have a new oxymoron - a mini-supermassive black hole (BH). However, regardless of the fact that this black hole is the tiny class of super-massive black hole, its mass is still huge - it is about 200,000 mass of our Sun.

A team of astronomers led by Nathan Sekrestom of George Mason University, explore the galaxy NGC 4178, did not expect that at the center of this galaxy is the black hole, as NGC 4178 has pronounced bulge - bright area near the center of the galaxy, 

Complete rotation of Jupiter, by Damian Peach

Damian Peach is the most accepted and planetary astrophotography while most "hated" the world. Admired by the incredible images it achieves. Hated because, although some approaches you, no one can its level. And it is very secretive and does not share their methods.

There is much speculation about how it does. Legend has it that gives access Celestron factory and can thus choose the best SC. 

A halo of NGC 6164

The attractive emanation nebula NGC 6164 was created by a strange, hot and bright star of type O , about 40 times more massive than the Sun Vista here in the center of the cosmic cloud, the star has an age of 3-4000000 years, within three or four million years will end its life in a supernova explosion .

With a diameter of about 4 light years away, the nebula has a bipolar symmetry, 

Globular clusters show: how galaxies come in several waves

The origin of most galaxies is not uniform, but run in several stages. This is a study of over 900 globular clusters by an international research team. The star clusters from the dawn of galaxy formation to occur mostly in two different chemical variants, the astronomers reported in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society".

"This indicates presence of two types of globular clusters suggest that most large galaxies have gone through two phases of star formation through", Christopher Usher of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia write Hawthorn and his colleagues. 

The sun

A thick tome on the sun, I thought, as I chosen up the package from the post, and in fact, it is a book that is all about the sun, turning the central star of our solar system. It is inconsistently the most misunderstood today star we know and the reference star is still for many astronomical state variables such as mass or luminosity.

If you expect good information about them - it's really about time that once again a book on the current results and findings of solar research is published - will be disappointed by the book, 

43rd Week - The cometary star forming region G110-13

The northern Milky Way in the area over cipher Cassiopeia to Peruses is rich in interstellar matter. There are not only bright H II regions, but also reflection nebula and a lot of dark dust and molecular clouds. The current Academy of Sciences demonstrates a very nice example of a combination of molecular cloud and reflection nebula, namely, a brownish, elongated cloud in the border area Andromeda and Cassiopeia. 

Pulsars as detectors for gravitational waves

So far, they escape despite kilometer-scale detector systems of discovery: gravitational waves, vibrations of space-time whose survival Einstein forecast in his theory of general relativity. However, the detection of gravitational waves could soon be possible. And not with special detectors, but with ordinary radio telescopes that measure the arrival time of the radio signals from pulsars. The vibrations are there but not - as has been mostly assumed - as a sort of background noise, but it dominate individual signals of individual sources.

"Giant eye" for studying the Milky Way

Mission Gaia - a unique space observatory of the European Space Agency, which will make the survey of billions of stars, the Milky Way, built-in digital camera with a resolution of 1 billion pixels. This "giant eye" explores the galaxy and makes a detailed map of the distribution of stars in it.

California was the usual stone meteorite

Clash, which, as predictable, could be from a recent meteor fireball that flounces over California, in fact, was the usual earthly stone, scientists reported.

Stone interested researchers, because it was assumed that he was a first portion, which had been left meteor lit the night sky over the Bay Area of San Francisco on October 17. 

Earth's magnetic poles change places faster than thought

Earth's magnetic field is increased incredibly quickly, since modern humans arrived in Europe for the first time, completely reversing its poles in less than a thousand years, a new study indicates.

Researchers observe volcanoes of Io from Earth

Using a amalgamation of surveys conducted by ground-based telescopes, and the data from the archives, the research team has collected about 40 pictures of volcanic explosion that took place at the geologically active throughout our solar system object - Jupiter's moon Io.

Quasar J1148 +5251, scientists have discovered around stars

See the sights distant quasar J1148 +5251, scientists have discovered around stars, although it was unspecified that in order to achieve its massive group of three billion solar masses of quasar need to consume large quantities of stars in each year for several hundred million years.

The answer has not yet been found, but after observing in the near infrared wide-angle camera number three NASA space telescope "Hubble", the scientists were able to put forward the assumption about the nature of the mysterious disappearance of the stars of the galaxy surrounding the quasar. 

A large X-class flare on the Sun

Powerful flare blow up on the Sun on Monday, October 22, freeing up space radiation fluctuation, which have already led to short signal destruction on Earth.

Flash coming from the sunspot AR 11958 has reached its maximum brightness at 3:22 GMT yesterday, October 23, according to scientists from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), 

Expedition 33/34 went to the ISS

Two cosmonauts and one astronaut and 32 live fish left Earth and went to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday afternoon (October 23), starting with the Russian launch site, not be used to start manned missions for nearly three decades.

Spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-06M", located on the carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG", was launched on 31 th launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:51 in Moscow (10:51 GMT). 

Pictures taken Cassini, discovered a "cross" on Titan

Recent images taken NASA Cassini have opened new interesting details of the release of the mysterious moon of Saturn, including nearly rounded education with a giant cross on it and seashore of ancient seas.

New findings were studied by two research groups: the first dealt with a "cross", and the second - dried seas of Titan.