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The moon is bombarded with meteorites, with a frequency a hundred times greater than astronomers thought previously. It found American scientists from the University of Arizona and Cornell University, published the results of a study in the journal Nature. Such meteor storms are a threat for a possible space settlements. …

Scientists say that there is still a lot unknown A team of astronomers found that the Universe is at least ten times more galaxies than they previously thought. The study claimed that in the previous calculations were overlooked a large number of faint galaxies that are far away from the …

The age of the star is more than 10 billion years. Scientists using the VISTA telescope has discovered an ancient “star RR Lyrae” in the center of the milky Way. Detection of stars, whose age is more than 10 billion years suggests that the galactic bulge, a spherical stellar cloud …

NASA has published hundreds of stunning images of Mars.The us space Agency NASA has published a series of new photographs from the red planet. The photographs capture the varied Martian landscape – craters, dunes, ice caps and mazes. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends data to Earth about Mars since 2005 …

Sleeve galaxy seem “dead”, and in its center there is an active process of star formation.Scientists using the Hubble space telescope got a picture of the galaxy NGC 278, which is located at a distance of 38 million light years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. The picture was published …

Moving the black hole already ripped one normal starFrench astronomers using telescopes Chandra and XMM-Newton found the first potential “wandering” black hole in a distant galaxy in the constellation of Bootes. A black hole is a special area in space and time where gravity is so great that they cannot …

The depth of the ocean can reach 200 kilometers. Scientists believe that the planet is Proxima Centauri b is very similar to Earth. Planetary scientists do not exclude that “double” has a necessary for life water resources, including oceans. This is evidenced by the mathematical calculations that had been performed …

NASA has found a star that shoots huge balls of plasmaSpace telescope of NASA “Hubble” discovered plasma balls about two times more of Mars, which shoots a dying star in the constellation Hydra. Scientific paper on it appeared in the journal the Astrophysical Journal, briefly about it reports a site …

“Murray Buttes” are located at the foot of mount sharp.The Rover Curiosity has provided a panoramic picture of the “Murray Buttes” on Mars. As reported on the NASA website, it was located at the foot of mount sharp and is one of the most beautiful regions who attended any of …

The system became the most striking of such space objects discovered at the moment. Researchers at NASA with a telescope “Fermi” found a record bright star system, which consists of a massive star and either a neutron star or a black hole. Such an object was first detected outside of …