"Eye of God"

[ramin2999]

founed it to be cool

[Nazanin]

Whatever it is it's beautiful... wow

[Nushabeh]

woosh chegash jalebeh...an eye in spaceeeee......

[RoadRunner]

kewl picture

[Rasputin]

geeee !

[Riaz]

beautiful

[RoadRunner]

Red Rose

Red Rose..

[Nazanin]

Dayum! These are so nice

[Nushabeh]

wow thats pretty

[Anonymous]

Re: Red Rose

Red Rose..

thata is really cool

[Cop]

baba ey val kheili bahal boodan

[RoadRunner]

baba ey val kheili bahal boodan

volek bahali ke bahal mibini =)

[IQ]

damn. very cooooool.

[Rasputin]

PASADENA, Calif. - A close flyby of Saturn's big moon Titan by the international Cassini spacecraft revealed an upper atmosphere brimming with complex organic material, a finding that could hold clues to how life arose on Earth, scientists said Monday.


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Cassini flew within 638 miles of Titan's frozen surface on April 16 and discovered a hydrocarbon-laced upper atmosphere.


Titan's atmosphere is mainly made up of nitrogen and methane, the simplest type of hydrocarbon. But scientists were surprised to find complex organic material in the latest flyby. Because Titan is extremely cold — about minus 290 degrees — scientists expected the organic material to condense and rain down to the surface.


"We are beginning to appreciate the role of the upper atmosphere in the complex carbon cycle that occurs on Titan," said Hunter Waite, a professor at the University of Michigan.


Scientists believe Titan's atmosphere may be similar to that of the primordial Earth and studying it could provide clues to how life began.


The $3.3 billion Cassini mission, funded by NASA and the European and Italian space agencies, was launched in 1997 and took seven years to reach Saturn. The European Huygens probe carried aboard Cassini was released on Dec. 24 and plunged to the surface of Titan in January

[Rasputin]

The planet, known as an exoplanet, is five times bigger and 10 times hotter than the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.

The photograph was taken last year by astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope at Mount Paranaol in Chile, the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said.

The exoplanet orbits a young brown dwarf star -- a star of low mass, low luminosity and relatively low temperature. Brown dwarf stars are hard to distinguish from planets.

They had earlier said they detected an object 230 lightyears from the Earth close to a brown dwarf, but giving off 100 times less light than it. Scientists were unable to say whether the object was itself a brown dwarf, or a celestial body meeting the criteria of an exoplanet and orbiting its neighbour.

But observations earlier this year confirmed that the object is indeed an exoplanet, the first ever to be photographed, the proof lying in its movement over a year relative to the brown dwarf.

In fact since 1995 the presence of about 150 exoplanets orbiting stars similar to the solar system's sun have been detected. But in every case but one their existence has been deduced from analysis of the light given off by the star which provides evidence of the presence of the planets.

The exoplanet is twice as far from its sun as Neptune is from the Earth's sun and its orbit takes 2,500 years.

The same team has identified another object in a different constellation in the area of a young star which is at the limit of the defintion of an exoplanet.

A full account of the findings will be published shortly in the European review Astronomy and Astrophysics.