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In 2009, a group of planetary science experts discovered a new ring around Saturn, made up, for the most part, of small, dark dust particles, a peculiarity that made it very difficult to detect. However, data obtained by NASA's Spitzer infrared space telescope revealed the presence of this structure, which appeared to extend some 6 million kilometers from the gas giant.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered that the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies has been profoundly reorganized due to multiple eruptions of a supermassive black hole over 50 million years old.

A team of scientists from Imperial College London (UK) has detected what appear to be soft tissue remains in a group of fragments of fossils (in poor condition) of dinosaurs from 75 million years ago. The study on these fossils that belong to the Sternberg and Cutler collections of the Natural History Museums has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

The arrival of man on the Moon completely fascinated this researcher from the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA). He tells us about his adventure through science and his hobbies, with one particularly noteworthy: music.

Currently, the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the problems that most concern world health authorities: according to a recent report, during the first four or five days of hospitalization, infections associated with Gram-negative bacteria classified as multi-resistant they affect 20% of patients, a risk that rises to more than 35% when the ten days of admission are completed.

Ana does not remember when she began her scientific vocation, but she does know that, since she was little, she wanted to know why things worked. He tells us about his scientific life in this video.

Thanks to new observations from the modern ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) telescope in Chile, we can observe an image of a distant galaxy (when the universe was only 15% of its current age, about 2.4 billion years after the Big Bang) seen through a gravitational lens in extraordinary detail.

The recently deceased American actor, director and writer Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), known internationally for his role as Spock in the galactic saga created by Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, already has his own corner in our cosmos. The International Astronomical Union has given the name "4864 Nimoy" to an asteroid discovered by the Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne in 1988 in honor of the actor.