We know a little bit things about it : discovered in 1826, the symmetrical nebula NGC 5189 is located in the southern small constellation of Musca. At the beginning seen as bright emission, Henize has seen and verified that NGC 5189 is a quasi-planetary nebula. His structure in the picture looks like a giant and bright blue-oranged ribbon.
A few years ago, NASA has estimated it to be 1 780 light-years away from Earth. It has a neighbor, the Hourglass nebula (MyCn18) located at 8,000 years away for Earth and which looks like a hourglass (see MyCn18's picture by HST).
And now, the question is : for Christmas, will we find a nebula which looks like a Christmas ball, a tree, a snowman ? No idea, but space still reserves us many surprises ......
Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker have given 7 days before Christmas a great gift to their fans : Blink-182's EP, Dogs Eating Dogs, is now available ! It contains 5 songs : "When I Was Young", "Dogs Eating Dogs", "Disaster", "Boxing Day" and "Pretty Little Girl" (with Yelawolf).
"See far is see in the past" ... and when we lookfar away,we are ableto trace the originsof the universe. It's what NASA astronomers have done by observing, thanks to Hubble Space Telescope, some of the first galaxiesformeda littlemore than 13billion years ago. "It was avery ambitiousobservation campaign, we were able togo back to13.3 billionyears ago,a few million yearsafter the bigbang.At that time, the universewas only3%of its current age", said Richard Ellis, astrophysicist atCaltech, Pasadena. These observations havebeen possible,thanks to the teamofRichardEllis, by pushingHubbleto its limits. During six weeksin August and September, they have allowed to discoverseven newgalaxies which, according to NASA, were born between 400 and 600 millions years after the Big Bang. The oldest, named UDFj-39546284, is13.3 billionyears old, and was formed"only" 390 million yearsafter the BigBang.
We have just waited 2 days to finally watch it today : M83 has released with The Creator Project his new jewel, which is the last part of the trilogy of the kids with superpowers : "Wait". The recipe ? Plansworthy ofcinema,betweenstatic and wide shots and close-ups pronouncedonthe faces of the kids and futuristic effects.
"Wait", surely the most beautiful M83 video
A video like this one, you'll never find ... a beautiful and mysterious girl across the world (in city, in a snowy mountain and a forest where she is perched with wolves), a prism which travels the universe and which has got inside the young boy with blue eyes ... all this in a song sweeter than "Midnight City" and "Reunion" ... A great video, probably the most beautiful video of M83 and of the year 2012 ! "Wait"is spreadingquicklyon the web,andthe opinionsare positive :
"Lately,theclipstend to benarrativeshort films,andthe original songhas notsometimes moredirect relationshipwith history.Itself, the clipbecamean entity, sometimes even afullmovie.It even happens thatitsstory isso epicthatfollowsa sequel, andin the caseof the latest videosofM83,a trilogy.This is preciselywhat the teamdirectorsFleur &Manuhave done for the 3 songs the most theatrical of M83, tellingthe story of agroup of telekinesic kids escaped froman asylumwith"MidnightCity",andbattlingthe authorities in"Reunion"." (The Creator Project)
NASA announcedMonday, 3 Decemberthatthe U.S. probeVoyager 1 is currently in the finalarea before itleaves thesolar system. Itwill become the firstvehicleto travelinterstellar space.
The probehas traveledmany kilometers : 35years after leavingEarth (in 1977), Voyager 1iscurrently, based onboard instrumentation, about18.5 billionkilometers from the Sun, orthreetimes the average distanceSun-Pluto ! For us, as humans, we won't be able to do such a distance. The probeis currently in "Kuiper's cliff" (2nd part of the Kuiper Belt), and probably atthe junction betweenouter spaceandour solar system.
This area, where Voyager 1 is walking,is like a magnetic highwaywhere thehigh energy particlesfrominterstellar spaceenter thesolar system. "AlthoughVoyager 1is stillinsidethe solar environment, we can nowseewhat looks likethe outsidebecause the particlesenter and leavethismagnetic road", saidEdwardStone,project managertheat CaliforniaInstitute of Technology(Caltech)in Pasadena.
"Ifwe judgeonlyfrom the dataon the charged particles, Iwould have thought we wereoutsidethe heliosphere.But we needto watch whatustellall the instruments, and only timewill tell us ifour interpretationsaboutthis frontierare correct", saidStamatiosKrimigis, working in theJohnsHopkinsApplied PhysicsLaboratory.
Theexplorationof the solar system the most fruitfulever launched
Thanks to Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (which has left the Earth one month after Voyager 1), we know our solar system better. The two probes flew by Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptuneand 48of their moons.The two spacecraftshave in particularrevealed a large numberof details about the rings of Saturnanddiscoveredthose ofJupiter.
They alsodelivered the firstdetailed imagesof the ringsof Uranus andNeptune.The twoVoyagerhave alsoallowed the discovery of33 newmoons andrevealed the volcanic activity ofIo, well asstrange structurein Europa,two moons ofJupiter.
Muse continues to add new dates for the Summer Stadiums 2013 Tour ! Five more, 2 in Norway, 2 in Germany and one in Finland. And because of a great ask of Muse fans, the band has added a 2nd date for Turin, Italia.
Here's the list of the Summer Stadiums Tour dates updated (new dates are in red) : May 22nd : Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK May 25th : Emirates Stadium, London, UK May 26th : Emirates Stadium, London, UK June 1st : Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK June 4th : Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands June 7th : Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, Spain June 10th : Estadio Dragao, Porto, Portugal June 15th : Stade de Suisse, Bern, Switzerland June 18th : Rock Werchter Festival Site, Rostelaar, Belgium June 21st : Stade de France, Paris, France June 22nd : Stade de France, Paris, France June 26th : Stade Charles Ehrmann, Nice, France June 28th : Stadio Olimpico, Turin, Italia June 29th : Stadio Olimpico, Turin, Italia July 6th : Stadio Olimpico, Roma, Italia July 12th : Freilichtbühne Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany July 14th : Waldbuhne, Berlin, Germany July 19th : Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway July 24th : Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway July 27th : Olympiastadion, Helsinky, Finland Note : Muse will come back for the concerts on December 10th (in Hartwall Arena, Helskinki, Finland) because of Matt Bellamy's broken foot. We hope that he will get better the next days and that no other concerts will be deleted. ___________________ Source : http://muse.mu/news.htm...
