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The city of Petra is oriented to the same star that the Kabaa
The main monuments of Petra, the legendary city of the nabateos in Jordan, are oriented towards the solstice and Canopo, the star that guided the caravans by the Arabic Peninsula, like it happens to the Kaaba, in Mecca, according to the astronomer of the IAC Juan Antonio Belmonte.
The investigator of the Institute of Astrophysics [...]
The 12 of August return the rain from stars of the Perseidas
This summer the well-known star rain popularly as Perseidas or Lágrimas of San Lorenzo has its maximum of activity the 12 of August, between the 19,30 and 22,00 hours (hour peninsular), being able to get to be observed up to 200 fleeting stars in one hour. The Moon enters its phase of last quarter the 13 [...]
Scientists predict what could be the end of the planet Earth
They discover a planet that offers indications of which it can be the final Earth destiny. The planet shortage by the investigators, denominated V 391 Pegasi b, has survived all those changes in its sun.
The international equipment of the investigation has been directed by Silvotti Robert, of the INAF - Astronomical observatory of Capodimonte in Naples, [...]
Photographies of moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos
We left them with this collection of photographies of moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is nearest the greatest Mars and of the two. Fobos and Deimos were open pies by Asaph Hall, the 18 of August of 1877 and 12 of August of 1877.
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The NASA will begin the search of extraterrestrial life in exoplanetas of the Solar System
The NASA will put this week in march his first mission with capacity to respond to the question that shakes to the Man from the dawn of the knowledge: There is life beyond the Earth. The scientists have discarded all possibility that virtually some type of biological activity exists like which we know in the Earth.
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The mysterious Vulcano planet
We are in the middle of century XIX. The world recognizes Newton as a genius and all the planets cross their orbits following their laws. All. No. Mercury, a small planet has a trajectory impossible to explain. The unique explanation that seems reasonable is that another small planet unknown between the Sun and Mercury exists that [...]
