According to current instruments, the odds of finding a quadruple quasar are one in ten million. Given these figures, it is no wonder astronomers are surprised and fascinated to have discovered the first of them. The team of scientists responsible for the discovery has been led by Joseph Hennawi, from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (Germany).
According to a new study carried out by an international team of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto (Canada), the University of York (USA) and Queen's University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and thanks to the Kepler space telescope, have discovered evidence of daily weather cycles on six extrasolar planets. These variations are similar to Earth's cycles, albeit in different phases.
A team of astronomers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (USA) has discovered, thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), what appears to be the first known globular cluster about to germinate. It is an extremely massive cloud of molecular gas (it has 50 million times the mass of the Sun) but without the presence of stars. The study has been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
An international team of astronomers, led by scientists from Yale University and the University of California (USA), have found a galaxy that formed more than 13,000 million years ago and which, according to measurements, is the galaxy most distant ever known. A new record in the astronomical world. The study has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
A recent study carried out by the School of Medicine of the University of California (USA) concludes that cosmic rays can cause permanent brain damage, a finding with direct consequences on astronauts who are going to make long-term space travel . The study has been published in the journal Science Advances.
A team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Hawaii), the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California and Tennessee State University (USA) has discovered a planetary system made up of three planets that it is only 54 light years distant from Earth. They would, therefore, be the three planets closest to ours.
On April 24, 1990, the NASA and ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in a project that started with special enthusiasm since it had been in the minds of the scientific community since the end of the decade of the 70. It started in a free orbit about 600 kilometers from the earth's surface. 25 years have passed and, without a doubt, this telescope has become one of the most prolific and important astronomical missions in the history of mankind.
The one that was the first exoplanet to be discovered around a star similar to our Sun (which happened in 1995) is the protagonist of this milestone in the world of astrophysics. Its name is 51 Pegasi b and it is a gaseous planet located 51 light years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
