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Astronomical community "buzzing" after it was revealed five planets around a star resembling our Sun. And at least one is within the "habitable zones" of stars.

Ancient trireme V century B.C. was found at the bottom of the Black sea. According to archeologists, it is the most ancient of all found in this region ships. Who belonged to an ancient ship, the experts were able to establish due to the large number of amphoras, surviving on the Board.

Astronomers at NASA was discovered asteroid 2011 AG5. The probability of a collision with our planet is very high, and can cause the death of millions of people. Held at the moment, the calculations show that the probability of collision of an asteroid with the Earth is 1 : 625. This can happen on 5 February 2040.

An international group of scientists from Russia and America have discovered bacteria of the genus Carnobacterium on the banks of the Kolyma river in the permafrost. These microorganisms can grow and multiply at a temperature, oxygen concentration and pressure, which correspond to the atmosphere of Mars. Spiegel Online sends a summary of the work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The history of relations between citizen and science interesting and monotonous to the same extent as the history of relations Romeo and Juliette: all the way is the same, but each time in a new way. The year is almost gone new stories are not written, but the old stories got an exciting continuation of what we are here and will pobraniem a slightly sweet Christmas mash.

Resource Space.com summarizes the results of 2012 and called the most unusual comic events of the outgoing year.

New telescopic camera is watching the stars and planets that are eight billion light years away - maybe in the end, we will find the living and find out that you are not alone in space.

Recall that the Darwin award - virtual prize, awarded annually for the most ridiculous death, and, as a consequence, "with the exception of defective genes from the gene pool of humanity." The prize is also awarded and the survivors, by his own stupidity lost reproductive capacity.

If the Earth were moving dangerous asteroid, none Bruce Willis could not save our planet. And not least because now there is not only manned spacecraft, at least theoretically able to approach the asteroid and get on it, but able to explosion split or transported to a safe orbit a small celestial body automatic devices. Indeed, in the latter case it should be referred to kilotonne automatic station with nuclear charge that can execute complex maneuvers.

The U.S. Agency NASA has finished testing the prototype of the suit Z-1, which looks very similar to the suits from cartoons.

Spiders create stuffed and directing them, pulling their strings as the puppeteers. Hanging lures on the web is not uncommon for spiders of the genus Cyclosa from the family of Orb-web spiders (Araneidae). Some of the species create "sculptural portraits" of the same color and size, as they are. Besides, "stuffed" reflect the light in the same way as the body of spiders.

According to John Gergana, humanity will solve ethical problems of cloning, and will use it legally. Humanity will agree with reliable methods of cloning when I will be talking about the return of parents tragically deceased child or about the treatment of serious pathologies.

Giant star Zeta Ophiuchus is hurtling through space, creating waves in star dust before him. As you can see on the image, the space telescope NASA "Spitzer was able to capture infrared portrait these luminous waves, also known as the phenomenon of the shock wave.

For anybody not a secret, that the inhabitants of open water is quite difficult to hide due to the nature of their environment. But some species have adapted to the peculiarities of their place of residence, as they were able to use optical illusions for a particular purpose. Such conclusions were made by a group of scientists who experimentally investigated the activity of fluorescent shark.

Space telescope "Hubble" recently did a beautiful image of a spiral galaxy IC 2233, one of the flat galaxies ever observed by astronomers. A typical spiral galaxy like the milky Way usually contain three main visible components: disk with a spiral arms, where the majority of gas and dust and halos, the area around the disk that contains little gas, dust and Central bulge in the center of the disk, which includes a large concentration of ancient stars surrounding the Galactic center.