March 2012

Composite image showing the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520 (Image NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University))

The Hubble Space Telescope allowed scientists to observe what looks like a clump of dark matter which is what remains after a cosmic catastrophe that led to a merger of galaxy clusters. The result is called the Abell 520 cluster, an abnormal cosmic structure which has a chaotic nature exactly because it’s the result of a collision between galaxies.

The micro-computer Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer the size of a credit card. That’s a project started about six years ago that has now finally seen the light. Yesterday its sales started and the success has been incredible, so much that the available computers were sold very quickly. The official project website was taken down because of the excessive traffic and the sites of its partners who resell the Raspberry Pi suffered high traffic problems.