NASA's Cassini probe, which has been exploring Saturn and its satellites since July 2004, when it entered the orbit of the ringed planet, has obtained some of the most detailed images ever taken of Hyperion, one of its moons.
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.
The red planet has scientists baffled by a strange phenomenon to which we cannot yet give an answer. It all started in 2012 when a group of amateur astronomers managed with their telescopes and high-resolution cameras, to capture some images with strange plumes of clouds emerging at the edge of the disk of Mars. Since then, the appearance of these huge clouds at sunrise on Mars remains a mystery.
Two different teams of German astronomers (from the Center for Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg) have certified the finding of a rather particular exoplanet. It has been baptized as Kepler-432b and it is one of the densest and most massive planets known today. The research results have been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
In the Milky Way alone there could be hundreds of billions of planets similar to Earth, capable of supporting life. That is what emerges from the calculations made by a team of planetary scientists from the Australian National University from data obtained on the more than a thousand ex-worlds that have been discovered by NASA's Kepler 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.
