Technology

As pictures, chronicles and historical events reflect, Europe lived between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries a series of very harsh winters that ruined crops and spread hunger among its inhabitants. In fact, this time is known as the "Little Ice Age."

The Very Large Telescope complex has revealed the existence of a huge star, which measures 1,300 times the diameter of the Sun, and is a million times brighter.

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was one of the greatest computer geniuses in history, which is why he is known as the “father of computing”. This mathematician, philosopher and scientist, whose contributions in the field of cryptography prevented thousands of deaths in World War II, shortening it by several years thanks to his decoding of Nazi secrets, has a lesser-known but no less important aspect: that of the field of biology and chemistry.

Until now, we had only one strong suspect to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs: it was surely an asteroid that wiped out half of life on Earth 65 million years ago. But he also had a mysterious accomplice, as proposed by theoretical physicists Matthew Reece and Lisa Randall.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of an asteroid breaking into pieces; an event astronomers had never observed before. This finding has been investigated by a team of astronomers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Eyes are on space more than ever, and efforts to facilitate future space missions have become a daily affair, especially around the moon. A method of producing electricity on the Moon at night has already been developed; now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has proposed the creation of service stations in space as a store for extra fuel in order to save time, money and, of course, fuel.

A team of astronomers from the University of Arizona has managed to capture an image of an exoplanet with a telescope that, instead of an infrared detector, uses essentially the same type of technology that typical CCD cameras are based on. digital.

According to the predictions of the experts, the meteor shower that will occur during the month of May will be one of the most intense and formidable of the year. The reason that astronomical observatories, astronomers and hobbyists are so excited about this announcement is because this type of meteor shower has never been seen before. This event will take place thanks to the passage near the Sun of comet 209P / Linear, whose discovery occurred in 2004 and of which there is very little information except that it is a periodic comet whose orbit around the Sun is about five years.