On the night of December 13 to 14, the Geminid meteor shower will be seen in full swing in the northern hemisphere, which occurs every year from December 7 to 17, when the Earth crosses the orbit of the asteroid 3200 Phaeton, a strange rocky body on October 11, 1983 by NASA's infrared satellite IRAS.
In a few years, thousands of new exoplanets will be cataloged, which are those that do not belong to our solar system. A study published in Astrobiology by scientists from NASA and other centers in the USA, Germany and Puerto Rico proposes to classify them according to their potential to host life in them.
On the night of November 17-18, the Leonid Meteor Shower, which makes its appearance every autumn, will reach its maximum splendor. The hourly rate of meteors will be around 15 objects, although this year the Moon will make observation difficult since more than half of its surface will be illuminated.
Since in a game of chess sometimes you have to sacrifice a piece to protect the queen, the primitive solar system could have expelled a giant planet to save the Earth, as suggested by research published in the magazine 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' .
The Hubble telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured the first images of the birth of a star. As experts have explained, the photograph shows a young star Herbig Ae / BI - young stars that have not yet entered the main sequence and are enveloped in clouds of gas and dust - in one of the first phases of its formation, so they estimate that it is "only" a few million years old.
The asteroid 2005 YU55, which was once classified as a threat to Earth, will pass 324,600 kilometers from the planet on November 8. According to experts, there is no danger of collision, however, being a distance shorter than the orbit of the Moon, NASA will follow the trajectory of the body until it moves away.
An international group of researchers has discovered that Eris, the star that unseated Pluto from the official list of planets, is smaller than previously believed. The calculation has been carried out using the concealment of a star by Eris.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image of a nearby white dwarf star and its orbiting companion. The temperature of the latter is roughly like a hot summer day in Arizona, and lower than the temperature of the human body.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
