GTC to unravel the mystery of the atmosphere of one of the 'super-Earths'

The 'super-Earths', with a mass 10 times greater than Earth's, are good candidates to find life outside our solar system.

Located 42 light years away, GJ 1214b is one of the most studied because it can be seen from ground-based telescopes with relative ease

The data obtained with the GTC by IAC researchers support the idea that GJ1214b's atmosphere is made up of metal.

Moon was once part of the Earth!

Scientists have make available new indication that the moon was once part of our planet, but billions of years ago, "broke away" from it in a collision with another celestial body.

Now that planetary scientists to understand where there is water on the natural satellite of our planet, all the scholarly attention has focused on the more fundamental question: how, after all, come from the moon itself? And how is it that she seemed bound rotated in space in tune with the Earth?

Scientists have built-up a geological map of Venus

U.S. and Russian planetary scientists developed the first complete geological map of Venus and presented it to the third Moscow Solar System Symposium on Space Research Institute (IKI) RAS.

"The map has helped us to find out what life in the earth, there were two periods of Venus - tectonic and volcanic his descendant. According to our calculations, the" morning star "is quite young - the average age of rocks on the surface is about 500 million years," - said one of the authors cards, Mikhail Ivanov of the Institute of Geochemistry, Vernadsky (Vernadsky).

See the cosmos 24 hours a day

Forthcoming astronomy is now possible, thanks to virtual planetarium that is installed in the Mall yesterday Arousa until 4 November. A journey during the cosmos and enjoy the most famous constellation or the operation of the solar system.

Shock waves are concerned the solar system

The planets of our solar system could have formed at different times, with the participation of shock waves coming from the sun, according to an astronomer.

This theory presumes that the Earth is one of the youngest of the planets in the solar system, along with Mercury, Venus and Mars.

Finding the Sweet ALMA

Using the telescope ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), a group of astronomers identify sugar molecules present in the gas surrounding a young star similar to the sun. This is the first time it has been found that sugar in the space around a star of this kind.

This finding demonstrates that the essential essentials for life are in the right time and place to exist on planets that form around the star.

                                                                   

Astronomers found glycolaldehyde molecules (a simple sugar [1]) in the gas surrounding a young star called IRAS 16293-2422 young binary,

‘VOYAGER 1’ In Limits Solar System

Reach the limit 'Voyager 1' of the solar system 35 years after leaving. The investigation probe Voyager 1 'has reached the limits of the solar system and extending its own record of human device has penetrated farther into space. The Rocket Propulsion Laboratory of NASA in Pasadena, California, has confirmed that the robotic spacecraft continues to send data to Earth.

how to observe the planets of our solar system

The planets of our solar system are on tomes some of the most rewarding and simplest sky watching targets to spot, if you know when and where to look. Here's a look at how to observe the planets of the solar system in 2011. Some have worlds of their own.

Astronomer’s measure distances in the sky in terms of degrees. For reference, your clenched fist held at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of the night sky.

A planet expelled from the Solar System

New research suggest that one fifth giant planet, the other four are Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune, was disqualified from our system about 4,000 million years. That mysterious world today could be thousands of light years away and, which is just as surprising, it is possible to have moons that, if they meet the appropriate conditions are still warm enough to support life. A summary of the study can be found at arXiv.org.

Venus

The second planet Venus in our solar system is the closest to Earth in accumulation and dimension, is nearly round, no substantial destruction. It is the brightest star in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. It is visible after sunset or before departure at no great distance from it, why is only visible during the first hours after sunrise and evening star, or during the last hours before the sunrise as morning star.

The outside of Venus is a real hell, enclosed by a thick fatal cloud cover; temperature is 500 º C, organism responsible greenhouse. This defines it as the planet with the highest temperature of the solar system and also the most volcanic.

Probably about one hundred in the vicinity of the Solar System

Rocky planets not much larger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around stars red weak. The international team believes that there must be tens of billions of such planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and probably about one hundred in the vicinity of the Solar System. This is the first time directly measured the frequency of super-Earths around red dwarfs, which account for 80% of the stars of the Milky Way. An international team just to make this the first direct estimate of the number of light planets around red dwarf stars. To do this, have used observations made with the HARPS spectrograph installed at the 3.6-meter telescope at ESO (La Silla Observatory in Chile).