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
París, July 12, 2022.- Webb’s enormous mirror and precise instruments joined forces to capture the most detailed measurements of starlight filtering through the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System to date. The spectrum of light – which contains information about the makeup of a planetary atmosphere 1,150 light-yearsContinuar Leyendo
Washington, July 12, 2022.- The international NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far. U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled the image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, during a White House event on Monday 11Continuar Leyendo
“After Euclid’s lifetime, it will just be floating in space. What if future beings found Euclid? How would they know anything about the humanity of the people?” – Tom Kitching, lead scientist of Euclid’s VIS instrument. París, July 01, 2022.- The team behind ESA’s Euclid mission has come together toContinuar Leyendo
Liquid water is an important prerequisite for life to develop on a planet. As researchers from the University of Bern, the University of Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS report in a new study, liquid water could also exist for billions of years on planetsContinuar Leyendo
