In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be shooting off swarms of marble-sized rocks. Scientists had never seen this behavior from an asteroid before, andContinuar Leyendo
Astronomers have long sought the launch sites for some of the highest-energy protons in our galaxy. Now a study using 12 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirms that one supernova remnant is just such a place. Greenbelt, MD, August 13, 2022.- Fermi has shown that theContinuar Leyendo
París, August 03, 2022.- On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Since then spacecraft operators and engineers have been working tirelessly to rectify the issue. Unfortunately, despite all concertedContinuar Leyendo
Webb’s Instruments Reveal New Details About Star Formation and Black Holes. París, August 02, 2022.- The Cartwheel Galaxy, a rare ring galaxy once shrouded in dust and mystery, has been unveiled by the imaging capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, which formed as a result of aContinuar Leyendo
About three years ago, Wolfgang «Wolfi» Mittig and Yassid Ayyad went looking for the universe’s missing mass, better known as dark matter, in the heart of an atom. East Lansing, July 24, 2022.- Their expedition didn’t lead them to dark matter, but they still found something that had never beenContinuar Leyendo
A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to ‘see’ through the fog of the early Universe and detect light from the first stars and galaxies. Cambridge, July 22, 2022.- The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, have developed a methodology that will allow themContinuar Leyendo
A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbour galaxy to our own. «For the first time, our team got together to report on a black hole discovery, instead of rejecting one,» says studyContinuar Leyendo
Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known that these elementary particles come from the depths of our Universe, their precise origin is still unknown. An international research team, led by the University of Würzburg and the UniversityContinuar Leyendo
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder. Boulder, July 14, 2022.- That popcorn-like effect may even help to tidy up smaller asteroids, causing themContinuar Leyendo
París, 13 de Julio de 2022.- El nuevo cohete Vega-C de la ESA ha completado su vuelo inaugural, colocando la carga útil principal LARES-2 —una misión científica de la Agencia Espacial Italiana (ASI)— en su órbita prevista. También se transportaron seis CubeSats de investigación de Francia, Italia y Eslovenia comoContinuar Leyendo
