The GTC provides new data from the Sigma Orionis cluster

The GTC observations have discovered earlier unknown characteristics of stars and brown dwarfs in the Sigma Orionis star cluster. The data are of high quality although some records were taken in non-optimal weather conditions.

 Members of the collaboration Consolider-Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) have failed to confirm data regarding the characteristics of ten low-mass stars and brown dwarfs through observations made with the OSIRIS instrument of GTC.

NASA discovers two planets around a star cluster

U.S. scientists have found indication for the first time that there are planets that can form and survive around stars similar to the sun regardless of forming part of dense clusters of stars, NASA announced.

Astronomers discovered two orbits similar to Jupiter in the Beehive Cluster, a group of about 1,000 stars that seem to swarm around a common center.

"This has been a great puzzle for planet hunters," said Sam Quinn, a doctoral student in Astronomy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and author of the paper describing the results.