Globular clusters are a close “family” of several tens or hundreds of thousands of stars that exist on the outskirts of galaxies. The telescope “Hubble” captures big star “hospital”: the stars globular cluster NGC 1854. The footage shows several hundreds of thousands of white and blue stars, they are in …
Read More »China plans to launch space station and a telescope
Chinese space station will consist of three modules. Chinese newspaper “people’s daily” reported that China plans to launch space base module of its space station in 2018. Later on orbit will take the other two laboratory module, which acticoat with basic module “Tianhe-1”. A spokesman for the main research Institute …
Read More »The Hubble telescope took a picture of the “cosmic snowflake”
Galaxy is in the constellation of the eagle. The Hubble telescope transmitted to earth the next space. It is possible to see spiral galaxy NGC 6814. It is located at a distance of 75 million light years from Earth. Photos of the galaxy was published on the official website of …
Read More »The ASKAP radio telescope has detected a record huge black hole
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole. Imagine trying on a new pair of glasses, you notice a monster! This is exactly what happened when the ASKAP antennas were directed toward the group of three merging galaxies at 1.8 billion light years from us. This monster has become supermassive black …
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