Новости за 10.08.2016

In Sept. 2014, NASA's Swift spacecraft detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 140903A). By combining the data with x-ray and optical observation, astronomers determined that it was caused by a merger of neutron stars in a galaxy billions light years away

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The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, occurring in early August. How much do you know about the celestial light show?

Pieces of natural space debris — typically rocky shards of comets or asteroids — occasionally survive their journeys through Earth's atmosphere and strike the ground, but how often does an event like this actually occur?

Twenty years ago, NASA scientists and their colleagues announced they had spotted possible signs of Mars life in a meteorite known as Allan Hills 84001 (ALH 84001). The claim ignited a scientific controversy that lingers to this day.

The Perseid meteor shower of 2016 will peak overnight on Aug. 11 and 12, with potentially up to 200 meteors an hour visible for observers in the best dark viewing sites. Here's some history and guides on how to see the 2016 Perseids.

The bright blue stars of the Messier 18 cluster are a young 30 million years old and all share the same 'parent' cloud of gas and dust.

NASA's Cassini mission probed the moon with radar and the "first direct evidence" of liquid hydrocarbon flooded channels was acquired, according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Meteor-catchers heading out to watch the Perseids this week are in for a special treat. In between watching the show on the north side of the sky, several planets and the moon will show themselves on the southern side.

An international team of researchers has identified the 20 most Earth-like worlds among the more than 4,000 exoplanet candidates detected to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award-winning novella "A Meeting with Medusa," this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity's first explorer of Jupiter, from two modern science fiction masters.