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They detect the hottest planet

They detect the hottest planet

According to the scientific magazine American New Scientist, the temperature of this new planet is own of a star. In fact there are, them as hot as WASP-12b, that it is as well half of hot that the surface of our Sun.
Its mass is 1.5 times greater than the one of Jupiter, but [...] only takes a day

It hits a small asteroid with the Earth

It hits a small asteroid with the Earth

A small asteroid called 2008 TC3 small cuttlefish with the Earth yesterday, according to presented the scientist the NASA Tony Phillips. In agreement with calculations conducted by scientists of the jet propulsion laboratory of the NASA, the object I strike the Earth to the 9:46 hours of the 6 of October, time [...]

American scientists detect that the Sun is not round

Scientists American are shortage that the Sun is not a perfect sphere, from the data collected by from the space telescope `Rhessi' of the NASA, according to informed yesterday this agency in an official notice.
Thus, the solar star has developed during years of activity which the experts have defined as a thin melon skin [...]

They discover the shock of two planets around a star

They discover the shock of two planets around a star

American scientists found evidences of which two planets to about 300 years Earth light hit recently, which constitutes a first fruit in astronomy, he indicated a report of experts in California (the west).
He is as if the Earth and Venus hit to each other, it said Zuckerman Youngest child, professor of physics and astronomy of the University of California [...]

The Sun is in its lower temperature

The Sun reduced the power of its furnace to the detected lowest levels in the space era, indicate new measures taken by a space probe.
But it does not have why to worry: the difference is too small to change the Earth life, said to scientists Tuesday. In fact, it means that the satellites will be able to remain [...]

Solved the mystery of the Mars ice layer

Solved the mystery of the Mars ice layer

A group of Italian scientists, has solved the mystery about the strange location of the residual ice layer in the South Pole of the red planet, being based on the data of the Mars Express sounding, according to has informed the European Space Agency (THAT, in English) in an official notice.
Like the Earth, Mars has layers frozen in [...]