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Scientists from NASA are planning to launch space telescope, with which they try to find the planet Nibiru or, as it is called, "planet X." She ancient legends of the Sumerians, with a certain periodicity flies around the Earth. The existence of the mysterious planet was discovered by scientists from the American space Agency in 1983 year with the help of infrared telescope IRAS. Some researchers believe that its gravitational force, for example, was the cause of a Great flood and the disappearance of Atlantis.

ONE of the most common misconceptions says: "constantly everywhere". Meanwhile, the scientists recorded the most accurate clock "lying" in the area of the fall Tungusskogo meteorite, in the area of nuclear weapons tests, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other "bad" places. Most often clock off there for a split second in an hour. But sometimes there is something incomprehensible, like "breakdown of Time", and then...

In the kitty lovers end of the world and other mystics have added another date is 2014. This time, however, the forecast of the Apocalypse is not based on polyterrasse tablets Mayan, and quite scientific reasoning.

The vast majority of known exoplanets found using various indirect methods, in particular Doppler and transit photometry. The method of direct visual detection with the help of telescopes does not produce such results, because the planet is extremely weak light sources (unlike stars), and their light is very difficult to "filter out" due to the high brightness of the parent star. Therefore, the direct detection of exoplanets is a very difficult task is only possible if a celestial body is large, and its orbit is removed from the stars that light the latter does not interfere with the observations). That is how it works: from 31 extrasolar planets, the open method of direct observation, the easiest twice-three times heavier than Jupiter, and the most close to its star is twice as far from it than the Earth is from the Sun. Well and the most distant and does is 2 500 and. E.

When Dutch Explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722 arrived at Easter island, before him stood a desert landscape and society on the brink of environmental collapse, although just a few centuries before the island was covered with dense forests and inhabited by people highly developed culture.

What Galaxy is surrounded by a halo, it is clear long ago. The question was, what is its main component. X-ray telescope space-based Chandra and other instruments revealed that the gas component of the halo that extends over a huge distance, by weight not inferior to all the stars of our Galaxy combined.

The machines that go explore the huge subsurface ocean, possibly existing on Jupiter's moon Europe will have to drill very, very deeply.

Mercury boasts unique to the Solar system surface, bearing the traces of a meteorite fall rare type.

The development of means of direct detection of exoplanets is in full swing, and it sets the researchers question: how the received image exoplanets and aktolun you can use to determine their habitability? Astronomers from Germany and the USA after the simulation of different options of such "color", came to the conclusion that it really is possible to judge about the presence and even to some extent on the composition of the biosphere.

Engineers from Madrid University Carlos III (Spain) under the General guidance of Professor Luis Enrique Moreno has developed a brush-based alloys with shape memory for cleaning ultraviolet sensors of Curiosity Rover from dust.

The presence of methane or its compounds scientists traditionally seen as a sign of potential habitability of planets, as this gas may be the product of vital functions of soil bacteria. In particular, researchers are very encouraged by the presence of methane on the same Mars. And is it really can be a "symptomatic of life"? It is doubtful...

Space vehicles have put people into space and even on the moon. But man always wants more, he had dreams of traveling to the stars. And to make this dream come true, NASA launched the project on manufacturing of the ship Alcubierre - vehicle that is traveling faster than light, bending space.

American astrophysicists revealed the secret of the mechanism of formation of the so-called "new tidal stars", which presumably are many bright flash in the sky, observed since ancient times - for example, well-known star of Bethlehem. These "luminaries" born with a very strong convergence of two white dwarfs, make up a system.