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Физики из калифорнийской национальной лаборатории доказали существование гелиевых дождей на Сатурне.
Этот процесс можно сравнить с тем, как разделяются вода и масло. Гелий сосредотачивается в нижних слоях атмосферы и выпадает в виде дождя. Это открытие позволяет физикам изучить весь спектр значений давления и температуры на Сатурне, при которых начинается дождь. Попытки выделить жидкий гелий ученые предпринимали с 70-х годов прошлого века. Однако только сейчас удалось воссоздать атмосферу, царящую в глубинах Сатурна. С помощью лазера OMEGA удалось расщепить гелиево-водородную смесь, помещенную между двух алмазов, до состояния, при котором начинает выделяться жидкий гелий. Эти опыты позволили сделать физикам предположение, что подобные дожди могут идти также и на Юпитере при более низких температурах. / Physicists at the California National Laboratory proved the existence of helium rain on Saturn.
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#ProgressMC
Carrier rocket „Soyuz-2.1a“ with the first transport cargo vehicle new modification „Progress MS“ transported to the launch pad №31 Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The rocket launcher is installed in the system. Work has begun on schedule the first launch day.

Start scheduled for December 21 at 11:44 MSK.

Upgraded truck deliver to the ISS about 2.5 tons of cargo, including „dry“ cargo, fuel, water and compressed oxygen.

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Pleasant Sunrise
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Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s inside a turbulent birthing ground for new stars known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away. When stars form within giant clouds of cool molecular hydrogen, some of the surrounding material collapses under gravity to form a rotating, flattened disk encircling the newborn star. Though planets will later congeal in the disk, at this early stage the protostar is feeding on the disk with a Jabba-like appetite. Gas from the disk rains down onto the protostar and engorges it. Superheated material spills away and is shot outward from the star in opposite directions along an uncluttered escape route — the star’s rotation axis. Shock fronts develop along the jets and heat the surrounding gas to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. The jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust and clear vast spaces, like a stream of water plowing into a hill of sand. The shock fronts form tangled, knotted clumps of nebulosity and are collectively known as Herbig-Haro (HH) objects. The prominent HH object shown in this image is HH 24.

Image credit: NASA/ESA

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Our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. Seen in this composite image, we see Earth appear to rise over the lunar horizon from the viewpoint of the spacecraft, with the center of the Earth just off the coast of Liberia. On the moon, we get a glimpse of the crater Compton, which is located just beyond the eastern limb of the moon, on the lunar farside.

LRO was launched on June 18, 2009, and has collected a treasure trove of data with its seven powerful instruments, making an invaluable contribution to our knowledge about the moon. LRO experiences 12 earthrises every day; however the spacecraft is almost always busy imaging the lunar surface so only rarely does an opportunity arise such that its camera instrument can capture a view of Earth.

Image credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
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