The Voyager 1 probe, the furthest human-made object from Earth, could have reached interstellar space after passing the orbit of Pluto. The University of Maryland study affirms that this happened just over a year ago, which contradicts the information recently offered by NASA that placed the spacecraft still in the heliopause, a transition zone between our Solar System and the rest of the world. the Galaxy.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has just announced that Pluto's fourth and fifth moons have been named Cerberus (Kerberos) and Styx (Styx). They are the winning names of a contest organized among Internet users that had 500,000 votes. The names have been the second and third most voted by Internet users, since the body has rejected the most popular option, which was Vulcano, due, among other things, to the fact that it had already been used in astronomy to designate a hypothetical planet located between Mercury and the Sun, which ultimately turned out to be non-existent.
An international team of scientists has carried out a study on Uranus that reveals that the wind on the planet can reach gusts of more than 900 kilometers per hour. The new work, presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has been made thanks to new images obtained thanks to a new technique at the Keck Observatory (Hawaii), which have revealed a "strange" climate on Uranus.
The latest images sent by the Cassini probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) show that the jets that appear to emanate from Saturn's F ring are, in fact, ice trails that leave "snowballs" several kilometers across. go through the disk.
On Titan, one of Saturn's moons, a region very similar to the Salar de Etosha, in Nabimia, has been found. Both are shallow lakes that only fill up under certain conditions. They are known as ephemeral lakes.
Strong storms occur sporadically on Earth, but no matter how violent they are, they have nothing to do with those on Saturn, which has just suffered a chain of storms that has lasted 200 days. This storm season, the longest in twenty years, has been recorded in images and animations thanks to the Cassini probe on the Cassini-Huygens mission.
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology have shown that the 2007 dwarf planet OR10, discovered four years ago and dubbed "Snow White," is an icy world covered over half of its surface by icy water that was produced by ancient volcanoes that were once active on its surface. These geological formations emitted half-melted snow instead of lava.
NASA scientists have come to the conclusion that at the poles of the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury, the conditions for the presence of ice could exist, specifically in the interior always in the shadow of deep craters.
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