The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission, with 1 billion pixels, will be the Eye of Gaia, an ESA satellite designed to map the Milky Way and with nearly 400 European scientists collaborating on the mission.
Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But a study from the University of Michigan (USA) suggests that the shape of the Big Bang may have been more complex than previously believed, and that the nascent universe rotated on an axis.
Researchers from Imperial London College (United Kingdom) have led a team that has observed the brightest quasar discovered so far: ULAS J1120 + 064. The study, published in Nature, could prove useful in understanding the formation of the universe.
What was in the infancy of the Universe? Many giant black holes. It is the conclusion reached by a team of astronomers from the University of Michigan (UM) analyzing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which detects very faint objects at great distances.
Located in the constellation of Perseus, at a distance of 750 light years, is the object L1448-MM, a young solar-type star in the process of formation. These early stages in the life of a star are characterized by the presence of winds or bipolar jets of molecular gas that move away from the protostar.
A study of 200,000 galaxies over five years, dating back seven billion years in cosmic time, has yielded one of the best confirmations that dark energy is driving our accelerating universe.
A group of astronomers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) has developed the largest three-dimensional map of the universe, which is capable of covering the space between 10,000 and 12,000 million light years away.
An international team of researchers has set out to provide mathematicians with their own "periodic table" that includes all possible shapes of the universe in three, four and five dimensions, and also to analyze the relationships between these components.
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.
