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Selasa, 17 Juli 2012

"The Red Devils", Tim Terkaya Dunia

Manchester United, tim olahraga terkaya dunia versi "Forbes".

Forbes merilis 50 tim olahraga terkaya dunia dan dua klub sepak bola menjadi pemuncaknya.

Seperti dilansir Goal, Manchester United sekali lagi ditahbiskan Forbes sebagai tim terkaya dunia. Kolektor 19 trofi jawara Liga Inggris itu memiliki kekayaan mencapai 2,23 miliar dollar AS (sekitar Rp 22,3 triliun). MU juga sedang bersiap melakukan penawaran saham perdana (initial public offering) di bursa saham New York, Wall Street.

Lumbung kekayaan MU dibukukan dari sponsor resmi perusahaan asuransi, Aon, yang membayar 19,8 juta pounds (sekitar Rp 297 miliar) dengan kontrak masih akan berlaku dua tahun lagi.

Belum lagi dari sponsor aparel latihan MU, DHL Express. Perusahaan kurir dan kargo kondang itu meneken kesepakatan empat tahun dengan nilai kontrak mencapai 40 juta pounds (sekitar Rp 600 miliar). Nama DHL akan terpampang dalam kostum latihan "The Red Devils" di seantero Britania.

Sementara Nike, sebagai sponsor utama merchandise dan aparel MU, menggelontorkan 25 juta pounds (Rp 375 miliar) setiap tahun.

Di lain pihak, posisi runner-up tim terkaya dunia versi Forbes ditempati raksasa Spanyol, Real Madrid. Menurut penilaian Forbes, kekayaan "Los Blancos" bernilai 1,88 miliar dollar AS (sekitar Rp 18,8 triliun).

Ke-50 tim terkaya dunia itu membukukan nilai kekayaan kolektif mencapai 53 miliar dollar AS (sekitar Rp 530 triliun). Tujuh klub sepak bola masuk dalam daftar itu dengan Arsenal turun tiga peringkat di posisi ke-10 dan Barcelona melesat 18 spot ke anak tangga kedelapan.

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Minggu, 15 Juli 2012

Penemuan Galaksi 'Hantu'

Gambar-gambar yang dirilis pada 10 Juli 2012 ini menunjukkan galaksi kerdil yang redup, Leo IV, tetangga dekat galaksi Bima Sakti. Leo IV adalah satu dari belasan galaksi kerdil yang samar-samar di sekitar Bima Sakti. Galaksi ini didominasi oleh dark matter atau materi gelap, materi tak tampak yang merupakan sebagian besar massa semesta.

Gambar oleh Sloan Digital Sky Survey menampilkan Leo IV dan kawasan di sekitarnya. Leo IV terletak 500 ribu tahun cahaya dari Bumi. Leo IV memiliki sedikit bintang, sekitar beberapa ribu, sehingga astronom sulit menggolongkannya sebagai galaksi. Bintang-bintang di galaksi ini berusia 13 miliar tahun, hampir setua alam semesta yang mencapai 13,7 miliar tahun. REUTERS/NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI)/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Foto-foto Tabrakan Antar-Galaksi

The sky is seen at night just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, in this NASA photo illustration released May 31, 2012. About 3.75 billion years from now, Andromeda's disk will fill the field of view and its gravity will begin to create tidal distortions in the Milky Way. The view is inspired by dynamical computer modelling of the future collision between the two galaxies. The two galaxies collide about 4 billion years from now and merge to form a single galaxy about 6 billion years from now. REUTERS/NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger/Handout (ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

The Milky Way, photographed from NamibRand reserve.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows star cluster NGC 2060, a loose collection of stars in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, in this handout photo released on April 17, 2012. The Hubble telescope imaged 30 separate fields with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys during October 2011. The star cluster contains a supernova that exploded about 10,000 years ago, blowing out gas surrounding it, according to NASA. This image is released as part of Hubble's 22nd anniversary. REUTERS/NASA/European Southern Observatory/Space Telescope Science Institute/Hubble Space Telescope et al (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has captured in stunning detail the spidery filaments and newborn stars of the Tarantula Nebula, in this image released Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, a rich star-forming region also known as 30 Doradus. This cloud of glowing dust and gas is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way, and is visible primarily from the Southern Hemisphere. This image of an interstellar cauldron provides a snapshot of the complex physical processes and chemistry that govern the birth and death of stars. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL/Caltech/B. Brandl)

Cygnus X, one of the most active regions of star birth in the Milky Way galaxy, is pictured in this NASA handout image obtained by Reuters January 10, 2012. The composite infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the cloud of dust and gas 4,500 light years away from earth in the constellation Cygnus. Most stars are thought to form in huge star-forming regions like Cygnus X.

Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist's concept, finding deep within it enough water vapor to fill all the oceans on Earth five times. The scientists peered at an embryonic star called IRAS 4B located in our Milky Way galaxy about 1,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. A light year is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km), the distance light travels in a year. They believe they are seeing for the first time how water, considered a necessary ingredient for life, begins to make its way to newly forming planets. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout