October 2013

Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy

“The Invisible Enemy” is an adventure of the fifteenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1977 featuring the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K-9. It follows “Horror of Fang Rock” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and directed by Derrick Goodwin.

The final antenna for ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) (Photo ESO/C. Pontoni)

The last antenna of the radiotelescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) was delivered earlier this week to the Observatory. It’s a 12-meter-diameter dish produced by the European AEM consortium. Now this astronomical radiointerferometer has all its 66 antennas planned to conduct its scientific research.

David Nalbandian in 2012

The Argentinian tennis player David Nalbandian announced his retirement from his professional activity.Born in Unquillo, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, on January 1, 1982, David Nalbandian has been a player of great talent but he didn’t alway trained adequately for professional sports. Among his best results there are the Wimbledon final in 2002 and the victory at the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.

Titan observed by the Cassini space probe (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the presence of propylene, a chemical compound used to create plastic materials, on Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn. It’s the first time that this ingredient of plastic is found outside of the Earth.