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ISS cooling system considering by NASA

“The questions for the day tasks were only partially fulfilled,” said NASA is using on its...

More than 600 scientists, who consider themselves denigrated, calling the organization of a real debate on climate

Published April 10, 2010 Stephanie Foulard Source: THE WORLD Size of article: 475 words Extract: Attached to their petition, they identify errors...

Revisiting the Owl Nebula

The planetary nebula M 97, although well known, has revealed a morphology unexpectedly on an image made with...

An extrasolar planet may have formed like a star

Some planets might rise like stars : it is the conclusion which seems to result from the observation...

Moon to Mercury

HTML clipboardSpitzer Space Telescope (NASA’s Spitzer) recorded the signs of a collision at high speed of the two planets in the system of young stars. One was the size of Mercury, the other - with our moon. The event happened a few thousand years ago. Artists from NASA immediately made movie. Our solar system in its history too rich for such a catastrophe. Giant consequences of which are believed, for example,

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The Supermassive Black Hole Found To More Distant Today

Tomotsugu Goto of the University of Hawaii and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy at the center of a supermassive black hole nests, the most distant so far found. The galaxy, which is so distant as it was 12,800 million years ago, is as big as the Milky Way and contains at its core a supermassive black hole containing as much matter as at least one billion times that of our SunIt is surprising that a galaxy so …

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The orbital telescope Herschel “reveals the secrets of the birth of stars

Also with the Herschel observatory received images “are not stars, which is a few hundred thousand years may be one of the brightest in our galaxy. At the moment a star, appearing in a cloud of RCW 120, already has a lot more sun at eight or ten times while still surrounded by a “nutritious” gas-dust cloud of total weight of 2 thousand solar

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At Plesetsk is “dry run” missile launch “Rokot” with two European satellites

On the northern Russia’s Plesetsk space center is continuing preparations for the launch vehicles “Rokot” with two European Spacecraft: Earth observation satellites SMOS ( «SIOS) and technological demonstrator Proba-2 (” Trial-2 “).
In accordance with the schedule, in early October at the launch site started “dry run” - a dress rehearsal readiness missiles and launch site for launch.
During the “dry run” simulated transport missiles from the assembly-test facility (MICA) to the launch pad and its installation on the launch …

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ISS cooling system considering by NASA

“The questions for the day tasks were only partially fulfilled,” said NASA is using on its website. According to ISS...

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Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision of Earth with an asteroid in 2182

Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision with Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 in XXII century. According to new estimates, a...

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The twelfth Meeting Astronomical Spring approaching

In a few days astronomy enthusiasts will gather again in the largest gathering of observers from Europe, the Reencounters Astronomical Spring.They...

May 16, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

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Managers Delay STS-104 Launch

NASA Managers announced that Space Shuttle Atlantis and its five-member crew will not launch...

Aug 10, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

Reusable Launch Vehicles

The faultiness ARD flight, launched by Ariane 5, confirmed EADS LAUNCH VEHICLES ’s know-how with...

Aug 9, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

Three black holes at the heart of a galaxy

The telescope spatial Chandra has revealed two black holes intermediaries in the center of the...

May 13, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

“Progress” had to be docked to the ISS in manual mode

As a result of loss of convergence “Course” spacecraft Progress M-05M “had to be docked...

May 12, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

Herschel Telescope found in the Milky Way giant protostar

This facility has received an astronomical designation RCW 120, was photographed by a telescope cameras...

May 11, 2010 | No comment | Read More »

The State Commission has decided to roll out the carrier rocket Proton-M launch complex

This afternoon at the Beckoner commodore a meeting of the State Commission on the results...

Apr 29, 2010 | No comment | Read More »