Space News

In this page I'll try to give you information on interesting phenomena expected soon to happen, so that you may follow them as I will!

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New Type of Black Hole Found—Relic of Early Universe?

The newly identified black hole, circled, sits within a star cluster.
     After nearly three years of spying a superbright object nearly 300 million light-years away, astronomers with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and SWIFT telescope recently announced the discovery of HLX-1, the first representative of a new type of black hole.
     Until recently, black holes were thought to come in only two sizes: Small stellar varieties that are several times heavier than our sun, and supermassive black holes that pack the gravitational punch of many million suns—large enough to swallow our entire solar system.
    Notorious for ripping apart and swallowing stars, extra-large black holes live exclusively in the hearts of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
     The new middleweight black hole is between these two types—equal to the matter of about 90,000 suns.

   New Black Hole Relics of the Early Universe?
     An international team, who discovered HLX-1 "almost by accident" in 2009, noticed the object was pumping out copious amounts of x-rays and radio flares—not from within the core of its host spiral galaxy, but some 12,000 light years beyond.
     The origin of these intermediate black holes may lie in centers of globular clusters, where hundreds of thousands of stars are densely packed together by gravity.

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Curiosity rover's Landing

         NASA's Curiosity mission was a great success, as it successfully landed on the dusty surface of the Red Planet.The apposite scientists are really proud of themselves because they made it to land the most technologically advanced Space rover in history.
         Since it landed, Curiosity has sent photographs about its location, it can scan Martian rocks and dust and it will search for the answer to the question: ''Could Mars support life a long time ago, or was it always just a red desert?''. No information has been sent yet, but the robot will sure send us much in the future...
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 NASA's Curiosity Rover 
     ''Curiosity'' is a space vehicle sent by NASA to the planet Mars to search and explore many different things there. It's size is like the one of a Jeep car.
      It has got a camera to watch the objects it takes with it's claw, an analyser to examine them more closely, as well as a temperature counter to count the Marsian temperature. It successfully launched in November 2011 from Cape Canaveral and takes commands by a computer back on Earth. It is about to land on Mars on the 6th
of August 2012.
      I hope Curiosity lands as it launched.....Successfully!!!

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