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 Astronomers detected a huge black hole, the size of a star located much farther than any other known object. It has a mass 20 times larger than our sun and located six million light years from Earth in the galaxy NGC 300.
The discovery was carried out with the VLT Telescope European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal in Chile. The scientific data indicate that the object has a great companion, a star, most likely, will end his days as well as a black hole.
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The largest planetary ring found so far in the solar system is circling Saturn, about 13 million miles from Earth, as revealed in the infrared images from Spitzer Space Telescope from NASA. This is a huge ring of dust particles, but so dim that it is not evident at first glance.
A team of astronomers from the Universities of Virginia and Maryland in the USA has encountered a huge ring around Saturn thanks to images provided by the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope for NASA. “It’s a super ring and if visible (from Earth) appears to be twice the size of the moon,” says Anne Verbiscer, University of Virginia. The researcher has reported the finding at the congress of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association, which this week celebrated in Puerto Rico.
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| Category: Space Science | Tags: Astronomers, hemisphere, Jupiter, NASA, numerical simulations, Planetary Sciences, radius, radius of Saturn, Solar System, Space Telescope, Spitzer satellite, super ring |
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