A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with data from the HARPS instrument, installed on ESO's 3.6-meter telescope in Chile, to reveal the existence of a system with at least six planets. But what breaks all records is the fact that three of these planets are super-earths located in the area surrounding the star within which there could be liquid water, making them possible candidates for the presence of life.
Acheron, Alecto, Cerberus, Erebus, Eurydice, Heracles, Hypnos, Lethe, Obolus, Orpheus, Persephone, Styx and Vulcan. These are the thirteen names that the SETI Institute is currently considering to name the new moons of Pluto found in 2011 and 2012 thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA has released a collection of impressive images of the Solar System. Baptized as FETTSS (acronym in English for "From the Earth to the Solar System") it contains photographs of our planet, the neighboring
The first discoverers of an extrasolar planet, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, have just been awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge award from the BBVA Foundation. We analyze in images the main historical milestones that h
A group of European astronomers has just discovered a planet of similar mass to Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system, which is also the closest of these characteristics ever discovered. To achieve this finding, the researchers used the HARPS instrument installed at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
With the help of NASA's Kepler space satellite, a team of astronomers has discovered for the first time a transiting circumbinary multiplanetary system, consisting of two planets orbiting two stars. It is located 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Swan, and the stars outshine each other every 7.5 days, the researchers explained. One of the stars is similar to the Sun in size but with 84% of its brightness. The other is a third of the size of our star and its brightness is negligible.
The two brightest planets in the solar system, Venus and Jupiter, will shine together in the sky during the nights and sunrises of the first weeks of July, as reported by NASA. To be able to observe this spectacle, experts have pointed out that you only have to look to the east.
In the constellation Taurus, there is a star called TYC 8241 2652. It is located 450 light-years from Earth and is barely ten million years old. Until recently, it was an ordinary star, a young analog of our Sun apparently in the midst of planet formation. But then the star did something unheard of: he turned off the lights and closed the factory.
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.
