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
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
