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 …

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 …