For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet expelled from it. The observations were done in 2018 with telescopes from the Global Millimetre VLBI Array (GMVA), the AtacamaContinuar Leyendo
Quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on the moons circling Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study led by a University of Arizona graduate student. Many of the ice-encrusted moons orbiting the giant planets in the far reaches of our solar system are known toContinuar Leyendo
El explorador de las lunas heladas de Júpiter (Juice) de la ESA despegó a bordo de un Ariane 5 desde el Puerto Espacial Europeo de la Guayana Francesa a las 14:14 CEST del 14 de abril. El lanzamiento realizado con éxito marca el inicio de un ambicioso viaje para descubrirContinuar Leyendo
París, April 08, 2023.- The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains that the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), createdContinuar Leyendo
París, 0 de Abril de 2023.- La ESA le ha dado la bienvenida a los nuevos candidatos a astronauta que están empezando su formación inicial de un año de duración en el Centro Europeo de Astronautas situado en Colonia (Alemania) para prepararse para futuras misiones espaciales. Los candidatos a astronautaContinuar Leyendo
March 24 marks 6 months until the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return material from the dawn of the solar system to Earth for study. Tucson, March 30, 2023.- The University of Arizona’s OSIRIS-REx team is eagerly awaiting the arrival of pristine material from asteroid Bennu, marking theContinuar Leyendo
ESA’s Gaia mission has helped discover a new kind of black hole. The new family already has two members, and both are closer to Earth than any other black hole that we know of. A team of astronomers studied the orbits of stars tracked by Gaia and noticed that someContinuar Leyendo
The European Space Agency ESA’s Juice space mission is scheduled to start its journey to Jupiter on April 13, 2023. Once arrived, one of the goals of Juice is to search for traces of life on three of Jupiter’s icy moons. The University of Bern is contributing the NIM massContinuar Leyendo
ESA’s Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes. París, 22 de Marzo de 2023.- Gaia’s data is already an invaluable resource for astronomers and scientists.Continuar Leyendo
A team including physicists of the University of Bern has for the first time detected subatomic particles called neutrinos created by a particle collider, namely at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery promises to deepen scientists’ understanding of the nature of neutrinos, which are among the most abundant particlesContinuar Leyendo
