Several celebrities may boast of their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Spanish people conjured the project considered as more majestic for their literal star.
The association of Spanish astronomers, The Pamplona Planetarium, and The Cervantes Institute calling for maintenance of their idea to name a little-known star as a tribute to Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.
Recently International Astronomical Union opened canvass during which people from all over the world are able to decide which name is to be given to one of the majority of stellar systems with extrasolar planets.
One of these systems is situated around the star famous currently as Mu Arae. The organizers of the campaign called «Star of Cervantes» want to call the stated star in honor of the mentioned writer and four planets around it as a tribute to main characters of his famous novel – Quixote, Sancho, Dulcinea, and Rocinante, as «The Local» writes.
International Astronomical Union is to make a final decision in November. The victory of Spanish campaign would come in handy, because this year 400-year anniversary since the day of publication of the second part of «Don Quixote» is celebrated.
On May 16, 1763 in one of the bookstores in London, well-known literary critic, author of the landmark Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson and James Boswell met. As a result one the greatest biographies ever written was born, and the world got another holiday - International Biographer's Day.
The authorities of Palma, the capital of Spanish Majorca, will limit the sale of alcohol in the summer season so that drunk bad-tempered tourists could not flood the city.
Flying to Mars and back a person will get approximately 60 percent of the radiation doze that is considered acceptable for the astronaut in his entire career. Russian and Bulgarian scientists came to such a conclusion on the basis of the data received from the machine Trace Gas Orbiter of mission ‘Eksomars’.
Russian scientists found out the well-kept skull of Siberian unicorn, an extinct woolly mammal Elasmotherium sibiricum from the family of rhinoceros. The age of remains is 29 thousand years. The edition Science alert writes about that.
Spanish people called Granada as the most beautiful city of their country. It is testified by the results of the survey conducted by the web-portal SITIOS DE ESPAÑA.
In the piece of amber at the market in Myanmar a fragment of feathery tail of the tiny dinosaur has been found. As the scientists told, this discovery is originated from the epoch not less than ninety-nine million years ago.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
On the 7-th of December in international mass media the information appeared claiming that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez sent the manuscripts of his own books to the approval of Fidel Castro.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
Astrophysics from Institute of fundamental investigations Tata found out scratch in the earth’s magnetosphere maintaining the protection of the planet from the cosmic rays and solar irradiation.
