Planeta GJ 367 b, descubierto en 2021, llevará por nombre “Tahay”, como la flor de color violeta azulado que habita entre la cuarta y séptima regiones del país, mientras que su estrella se llamará “Añañuca”, como la flor roja que crece en la zona norte y central de Chile. Valparaíso,Continuar Leyendo
Everything must go smoothly when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases its capsule with pristine asteroid material to land in the Utah desert in September. Tucson, July 13, 2023.- The capsule looks a little bit like a miniature UFO from a 1960s sci-fi flick. Resting on the ground, slightly tilted, its whiteContinuar Leyendo
Antofagasta, July 11, 2023.- The European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ESO’s ELT) is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest telescope in the world for visible and infrared light: the world’s biggest eye on the sky. Construction of this technicallyContinuar Leyendo
A string of lined-up galaxies in the early universe reveals clues – and questions – about the fundamental architecture of the universe. Tucson, July 06, 2023.- Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of scientists led by University of Arizona astronomers has discovered a threadlike arrangement of 10 galaxiesContinuar Leyendo
Cabo Cañaveral, 01 de Julio de 2023.- La nave espacial Euclid de la ESA despegó en un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX desde la Estación de la Fuerza Espacial de Cabo Cañaveral en Florida, EE. UU., a las 17:12 CEST el 1 de julio. El exitoso lanzamiento marca el comienzoContinuar Leyendo
París, June 27, 2023.- This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This nebula is teeming with young stars, as gas and dust within it clumps togetherContinuar Leyendo
Interaction between moon’s plumes and Saturn’s ring system explored with Webb París, May 30, 2023.- A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland to Japan — has been detected by researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSAContinuar Leyendo
Anyone with an internet connection can now join University of Arizona researchers as they work to discover asteroids hurtling through our solar system. Tucson, May 18, 2023.- Anyone can become an asteroid hunter thanks to a new program launched by astronomers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.Continuar Leyendo
París, May 15, 2023.- The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapour –Continuar Leyendo
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found for the first time the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the Universe. They detected three distant gas clouds whose chemical composition matches what we expect from the first stellar explosions. These findings bring us one stepContinuar Leyendo
