Astronomía (Page 13)

París, Aug 29, 2023.- The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxies with ragged or disrupted spiral arms, grand-design spiral galaxies boast prominent, well-developed spiral arms like theContinuar Leyendo

Florida, Aug 29, 2023.- The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance carrying ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Crew-7’s NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos astronaut Konstantin Borisov, docked to the International Space Station at 15:16 CEST today, marking the official start of Andreas’s Huginn mission. Piloting the DragonContinuar Leyendo

A University of Arizona-led NASA mission nearly 20 years in the making is finally reaching its end, but the scientific investigation is only beginning. Tucson, Aug 24, 2023.- The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission – NASA’s first mission to collect an asteroid sample and deliver it to Earth – wasContinuar Leyendo

Darmstadt, Aug 23, 2023.- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module on the surface of the Moon. What happened? Chandrayaan-3 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Range (SDSC SHAR), India, on 14 July 2023 on a mission to demonstrate new technologiesContinuar Leyendo

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

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