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 masses. Commenting on the published photograph, Savant Annie (Annie Savaging), Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseille, said that the opportunity to observe the "childhood" heavy stars can help resolve long-standing paradox of astronomy that stars more than eight solar
Scientists have ceased to understand the message from the Voyager 2
Researchers have found faults in the spacecraft Voyager 2 "(Voyager 2), launched more than 30 years ago. More problems are described on the site of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA. (more...)
April 27, 2010 held a successful launch rocket Kosmos-3M.
April 27, 2010 at 05. 2005 Moscow time from the launcher platform № № 1 132 public test the Presets launch site launch rocket Kosmos-3M production of Omsk on “Flight” - a branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “GKNPTs them. 2005 Moscow time from the launcher platform № № [...]
NASA has postponed launch of Space Shuttle
Starting the last space shuttle program NASA Space Shuttle
moved to November 2010 in connection with the need to complete the work on
improvement of the alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMES), which will be installed
on the International Space Station (IS).
Comet Awards and Their Social Impact
On October 1, 1847, while sweeping for comets on the roof of her father’s
home on Nantucket, Massachusetts, Maria Mitchell moved her telescope 5° above
Polaris and promptly discovered a new visitor. The 29-year-old woman, who had
been searching long hours unsuccessfully on every clear night, now walked
demurely downstairs, her heart undoubtedly pounding with excitement, to inform
her parents [...]
New Galaxy Redshift Record
This week astronomers announced the highest redshift reported so far for a celestial object. Hsiao-Wen Chen, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, and Sebastian Pascarelle (State University of New York, Stony Brook) write in the April 15th issue of Nature about finding a magnitude 27.7 blip in Ursa Major that appears to be a galaxy with a redshift [...]
A space solar power? A futuristic project that could become reality
Boasting a large number of funding from the federal government under Obama will double the amount of energy produced from renewable sources [1], the solar wind in its sails. Yet despite its enormous promise, technological spillovers are still very limited. One major problem remains the need for continuous power,
The Indian space program based on country needs
According G Madhavan Nair former Director of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) India does not look the other Asian countries (China and Japan) as competitors in the field of space but is developing a space program adapted to needs. These programs are based on practical needs of Indians as health and education.
South Africa looks to space
Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, confirms the sessions of parliament that South Africa by investing in satellites and telescopes, aiming to become a regional center for space technology.
Creation of five professorships in international astronomy
The Ministry of Science and Technology funding five professorships in international astronomy for a total of 240 million rand (22 million euros) over 15 years. The universities of Cape (UCT), Stellenbosch, Rhodes, Witwatersrand and Western Cape (UWC) are looking for internationally recognized researchers to take the lead in these chairs.
Series expansion of the satellite platform SPRINT JAXA
At a symposium held November 26 at Miraikan in Tokyo, the Japanese Space Agency has provided more information on the small satellite platform called SPRINT (Small Space Science Innovative Platform for Rapid experimenNT), intended to be mass-produced Take out the next mission scientists Japanese small.
Mars would have had a great ocean in the past
AOL Latino News & Agencies) .- A new map of the valleys of Mars developed by Northern Illinois University, next to the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston supports the theory that an ocean covered the red planet’s northern hemisphere.The technique used to map the Martian terrain is an innovative computer program to produce a [...]
PROGRESS launches new vans to the space station (current)
Freighter was equipped with new enhancements, which also in future Soyuz capsules are to find application 25. November 2008 A new type revalued Russian cargo transporter was today launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-U rocket with the Progress M-01M on its head took off at 13:38 CET Clock from the launch pad. [...]
Kepler photographed his first planet hunting ground
“First Light” image of the new Space Telescope shows the region with millions of stars 16. April 2009 NASA’s new space telescope Kepler has fired his first shot of the star-rich region in the sky, where it will soon begin the search for Earth-like planets. This first recording, also known as “First Light” for the [...]
A clown in space
The Soyuz TMA-16, he shared with a Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut, has left its launch pad as scheduled at 07:14 AM GMT. The former fire-eater, aged 50, who was offered the trip of 12 days in orbit for $ 35 million dollars, became the seventh “space tourist”.
The docking with the ISS is scheduled [...]
