Beautiful photos last week

The most beautiful Perseids meteor shower of the year, the strange Phoenix galaxy cluster, the remains of hundreds of ancient warriors . are the outstanding scientific images of the past week.

Leaving the scene of a powerful supernova explosion at a rapid speed, the star in the picture above is a hidden crystal never discovered by scientists before. It is small but has nearly 25 times the speed of other stars, so this crystal is located quite far away from where the explosion took place. After exploding, the outer layers of the dead star are swept into space, leaving behind a neutron-star-sized star and the mass of the Sun.

Recently, a group of international scientists have jointly evaluated and given the score for the health status of oceans in the world today is 60 with a scale of 100, meaning there are still many issues to be improved. good. To get this figure, the research team based on 10 indicators such as biodiversity, clean water, the ability to provide food and the level of livelihood support for people living in coastal areas.

After landing at the Red Planet, NASA's Curiosity self-propelled probe has repeatedly sent high-resolution color images that show a very similar terrain to the desert region of the southwestern United States. The picture was taken on August 8, just three days after Curiosity's impressive landing near Gale Crater on Mars.

By shaking themselves, mammals with furry bodies are capable of drying 70% of their fur in less than 1 second. The new study examines the vibration rate of more than 16 species from mice, lions to dogs, bears . also shows that smaller animals have faster drying time.

The video posted on Vimeo on August 7 named 'The Blue' begins with a group of fishermen on a fishing boat off the Pacific Ocean. One of the men dropped into the water with the same function as the GoPro underwater camera and captured the vivid images of the dolphins like above.

On August 8, scientists recorded the highest melting of Greenland ice sheets over the past three decades. The melting season usually begins in June, when the first ice pools appear and last until early September, when the temperature begins to cool. This year, four weeks before the end of the melting season, the flow of ice has exceeded the record in 2010.

With a density of up to 100 streaks / h, Perseids - one of the meteor showers rated as the best in the year has brightened the night sky on 12, dawn 13/8. In the picture is Mount Tiede National Park area on the Canary Islands, on the west coast of Africa.

For nearly two months, Danish archaeologists have continually discovered the remains of hundreds of warriors dating back about 2000 years. The fragments of bones and skulls were not normal and many spears, axes, and shields found there were violent evidence that they had endured painful death.

Recently, a 10-meter-high telescope installed in Antarctica discovered a cluster of extremely special galaxies located about 5.7 billion light-years from Earth. In the central area of ​​this Phoenix galaxy cluster, stars are always formed at an incredibly fast rate each year while in other normal galaxy clusters of the universe, that time must be up to billions of years. The supermassive black holes that appear in the center are thought to cause a slow rate of formation, but it seems that with the cluster of Phoenix, they must also "give up".