Saturday 28 December 2013

Image of Astronomy 2013

Fomalhaut dust ring

Space Telescope, Hubble, sending most accurate image ever made of the star Fomalhaut. The image displays a disk of dust that surrounds the star Fomalhaut is quite extensive and mysterious planet. Hubble reveals, the planet Fomalhaut b is located at a distance of 7.4 billion miles from the star and the outermost point of its orbit is at a distance of 43 billion miles from the star
Ison swallowed the Sun

Some time ago the world to monitor the movement of the sun across the comet Ison. The image created by the satellite SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), this comet is composed mostly of ice that is approaching the Sun. Shortly after crossing, Ison declared lost most of its mass.
New Moon Neptune

His name is nothing more than just numbers and alphabet: S/2004 N 1 is the moon orbiting the newly discovered planet Neptun last July thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope image. According to Nasa S/2004 N 1 is the 14th month that surrounds Neptun. This natural satellite is about 100,000 kilometers and surrounds its parent planet in a cycle of 23 hours.

Aelia crater in Vesta Surface

NASA released the image of a surprise by Aelia craters on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. This image was made by unmanned Dawn spacecraft are tasked to observe the largest celestial bodies other than planets. Vesta denagan an average diameter of 520 km is the largest asteroids after Ceres dwarf planets orbiting the sun.

Mars Curiosity year

NASA released last May a self-portrait made ​​by the Mars Rover Curiosity. This image combines a series of images made by hand Curiosity camera for exploring the red planet's surface. Curiosity last August celebrating one year of Mars exploration missions. Rover is in charge of collecting evidence that life has enough fuel to roam Mars for a decade


1998 QE2 Crossing

A 2.75 km diameter asteroid passed by Earth in May. NASA radar image of the heavenly bodies publicize named the QE2 in 1998 with moon which appears as white dots. The asteroid closer to Earth at a distance of 5.6 million kilometers, equivalent fifteen times the distance of Earth and the Moon.


 Adventure Voyager 1 in Interstellar Space

Although Voyager1 made ​​eleven years ago, the image of the planet Jupiter has a different meaning this year. Because Voyager 1 unmanned spacecraft launched by NASA in 1977 and for the first time to leave the solar system and enters interstellar space. Voyager 1 so is the farthest man-made object. Voyager 1 is now about 125 AU or 125 times the distance Earth-Sun

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