A team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii have simulated the passage of 10 million asteroids next to the Earth and have concluded that the Earth's gravity must have trapped a celestial object and that, at some point, in addition to the Moon, there was at least one "mini-moon" one meter in diameter revolving around our planet.
A group of French researchers has carried out the first computer simulation of the structure of the entire observable universe, from the Big Bang to the present day. These simulations allow us to see how no less than 550,000 million particles have evolved.
American DMSP satellites captured night images of Europe from space in 1992 and 2010, and the result is spectacular. In them you can see the development of cities according to the light they emit into the sky: Paris, Madrid, Rome, ...
At the beginning of March many people were able to observe a planetary conjunction between Jupiter and Venus. For the clueless who missed this spectacular astronomical event, these days the higher spheres offer us a new pass in which, in addition, the Moon will make an appearance.
Although until now they were only known in the shape of a disk, ellipse or irregular, an international team of astronomers has just found a rectangular galaxy with a shape that resembles emerald-cut diamonds, according to its discoverers. Leda 074886 is not easy to see, since it is 70 million light years from Earth and also has 50 fewer stars than the Milky Way.
Seven years ago, astronomers found the first runaway star moving out of our galaxy at a speed of 2.4 million kilometers per hour. If a star can reach such extreme speed, could the same thing happen to planets? New research shows that it does.
Next year a rock 50 meters in diameter will pass closer than normal to our planet. The asteroid, dubbed 2012 DA14 and discovered by a team of astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESA) will travel just 15,000 miles from Earth, closer than many commercial satellites.
Forty light years from Earth is a huge planet made up mostly of water and surrounded by a dense atmosphere of steam. The composition of this strange aquatic world has been analyzed by a team of researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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.
