The ambitions of the Indian Space
Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope Takes Shape
NASA released pictures taken by powerful telescopes
Researchers from NASA recently presented a spectacular collection of photographs, which were sealed with a variety of objects - from a comet before colliding galaxies.
THE CENTER FOR STAR FORMATION STUDIES (CSFS)
The Center for Star Formation Studies is a consortium of researchers working together in a coordinated fashion to construct a comprehensive theoretical model of the process of star formation. The Center has been funded by the NASA Astrophysical Theory Program since 1985, and is directed by David
Ganymede and Callisto Why are they so different?
Two of the moons of Jupiter, Ganymede and Callisto, have almost the same size. They should therefore have been similar developments and present surrounding structures. But this is not the case at all. According to two researchers from Southwest Research Institute, the solution to this enigma lies in the Late Heavy Bombardment.
Space technology gets into house
Although seemingly disparate case of products, guitars, lenses for glasses, insulating paint and baby food have something in common: they have improved with the application of space technology developed by NASA.
Salon du Bourget: Airbus A350 sells and APM 40 shows Simba
Admittedly, this is the crisis, but Airbus and Boeing are beginning rather well the 48th Paris Air and Space. In terms of new products presented, the Russian Sukhoi enters the big league with his jet Superjet-100 and the French Aviation Issoire pushes one more pawn in recreational aviation with Simba.
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Watch Jupiter
August 14, Jupiter will be in the opposition. This month is the best time to observe: the giant planet has never been so close for 10 years (603 million kilometers) and is visible all night. Take advantage of our boards to discover …
Spitzer detects lava ejecta from a collision of planets
Before starting the warm phase of its mission, Spitzer had recorded a spectrum from strange matter in orbit around a very young star, HD 172555. A group of astrophysicists has inferred that it was sprayed rocks and pieces of lava left by a recent collision between two small planets.
Planck began his observations of the CMB
Herschel and Planck are in orbit around the Lagrangian point L2 for some time and the first has already begun to deliver impressive pictures ahead of schedule. Now Planck who just started his observations of the oldest light in the universe.
Discovery of the first super-planetary nebulae
The planetary nebulae are among the best known objects in astronomy but are an enigma to them. Why, contrary to predictions of the theory, do observes one around of stars less massive than the Sun? A group of Australian astronomers think that these objects have discovered missing.
Cosmic rays are more powerful …
In memory of modern man, the radiation cosmic never been so intense. Located at 1.5 million kilometers, the ACE satellite (Advanced Composition Explorer) since 1997 turns around the Lagrangian point L1 system Earth - Sun. It continuously scans the surrounding environment to study the solar corona,
Showers of stones on the COROT exoplanet-7b
A program used to simulate the volcanism on Io, a moon of Jupiter, the exoplanet rock recently discovered by COROT in orbit around a dwarf star in the constellation of the Unicorn is the seat of a strange phenomenon: there would rain of pebbles! “There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio,
Impacts of meteorites reveal Martian ice
Taken in 2007 by the Hubble telescope, an image of the surface of the asteroid Pallas eventually talk. It reveals what planetary scientists have suspected for some time. Pallas is a protoplanet in the freezer, instructive relic of the early days of the formation of solar tendering system leads.
Alcor and Mizar are a binary system tripled
Long before its use by Galileo in a telescope, astronomers knew of such a binary system, the stars Alcor and Mizar. The couple has since ceased to multiply with increasing resolution instruments. Mizar has been double and quadruple. Latest episode dated: Alcor has in turn seen as a binary. Total: 6 stars!
