Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Stunning Space Bubble, perceived by Hubble

An extravagant new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a dazzling space bubble filled with baby stars. 


The new space bubble image highlights a region called N11 – an intricate network of gas clouds and star bunches within our adjacent galaxy, the huge Magellanic Cloud.

This lively star-forming region is the subsequent largest known to date, and one of the most energetic in our galactic neighbor.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Water on Mars proclaim 10 years ago

Past 10 years ago this week, news from Mars made a vast splash on Earth — water may still stream on the surface of the red planet. That information, announced by NASA, hinged on photos of brand new gullies imprinted across the Martian surface, and a decade of other water-on-Mars discoveries result. Until now even 10 years later ultimate evidence of flowing Mars water remnants intangible. 


The mission to discover facts of liquid water on Mars, and the disclosures that have turned up all along the way, have altered our outlook of the red planet from a dry and dead planet to one where life might perhaps have flourished and even live still.

"We are positively on the path to exploring the habitability of Mars — what it's been similar in the history and even potentially at the present," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Theoretical foundation of stars

Twinkle twinkle little star

There aren't many kindergarten rhymes concerning astronomy. Although 'twinkle twinkle little star' builds constructive point. We are able to tell which lights in the night sky are stars since they emerge to twinkle. Planets, on the other side, don't, they stand out progressively in the sky.

Stars twinkle since they are very distant away, and so come into sight as minute points of light in our night sky. Some of this light is engrossed by moving air in the Earth's atmosphere, making the star appear to sparkle.

Planets, like Saturn or Jupiter, don't glitter. This is because they are a much closer to the Earth and so they seem to be bigger in our sky than stars.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

NASA find out Doctor Who’s crack in the center of the Milky Way

Daily Galaxy's image of the day disclose the massive MacGuffin in space.

On behalf of those of you following this year's season of Doctor Who, this image of the day builds for a few rather disturbing viewing. It comes into view that the constellation Sagittarius is featuring a gigantic stellar crumb of graffiti.

And it seems to be rather like the fracture in the Universe that’s been following Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the region of this year's story.


So what is this fracture? It's "the center of a thick, sooty cloud huge enough to gulp down dozens of solar systems and might be harboring revolting stars in the progression of forming."

That’s threatening – a star devouring break in the center of the night sky… someone better call for The Doctor!

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Hubble grab hold of star devouring planet in Milky Way

A PLANET in the course of action of being devoured by the star trapped live by the Hubble telescope. The planet, names WASP-12b has maximum known surface temperature of roughly 1500 degree C of any planet in Milky Way.

By means of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph the researchers experimental hoe planet was whipped into an extended shape by gravitational forces. In this progression the planet might be enveloped by its own parent star over the ten million year.

Carole Haswell, researcher with the group said, “We see an enormous cloud of material, which is evading and will be captured by the star. We have recognized chemical elements by no means before seen on planets outside our own solar system.”

WASP-12b, revealed in 2008, is situated about 600 light years as of earth in the Auriga Constellation and is more than 300 times bigger than earth and 40 percent greater than Jupiter. It is so close to star that it orbits the star in little more than 24 hours.

It is the first time Astronomers the occasion so closely, even though they knew the star will gulp down a planet that comes near it.

The Hubble Space Telescope, HST, named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, is in action since April 1990.