American scientists from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a rocky planet so close to its star that it is disintegrating, and according to forecasts it will disappear completely within 100 million years. According to the researchers in the Astrophysical Journal, the planet orbits every 15 hours around its star, called KIC 12557548 and located 1,500 light years from Earth. And it has a long tail of debris, similar to that of a comet.
It's called GREGOR and it has just been installed at the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). In addition to being the largest solar telescope in Europe, it is the third largest in the world. It has an aperture of 1.5 meters, which together with the new adaptive optics system, which compensates for atmospheric turbulence, achieves an image quality that, until now, no terrestrial solar telescope has obtained, both in the visible range and in infrared.
At 77 he remains jovial and talkative. We take advantage of his time at the NASA exhibition, the adventure of space, which can be visited at the Casa de Campo in Madrid until June 15, 2012 to chat with him and discover what he feels when he looks at the Moon from his window, why they walk so strange and curious by the lunar surface and what were his best and worst memories of the mission that took him to our natural satellite.
The Chilean VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) telescope, measuring 4.1 meters and located at the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, has delighted us with the images of the tens of thousands of stars clustered in Messier 55, the oldest in the Universe. Discover them in this video.
A spectrometer designed by astronomers at the University of California (USA) will allow scientists to study the first galaxies that formed in the Universe.
Fomalhaut is a young star around which thousands of comets could be destroying each day. The Herschel space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) has studied the disk of dust that surrounds it and in which a cosmic massacre could be taking place.
The solar system has a twin 130 light years away. It is a series of planets, specifically nine, that orbit the star HD 10180, according to the latest issue of the journal 'Astronomy and Astrophysics'. Until now it was thought that the star only had seven planets.
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.
