A billion pixels for a billion stars

E2v has worked for more than five years to produce all of the Gaia CCD. I doubt those going to buy a can of paint to store hardware chain Homebase has in the English town of Chelmsford think too much about what happens in the factory adjoining art. It is the headquarters of e2v; a company that gained fame after World War II manufactured lamps for television industry but now produces camera sensors for some of the most important space missions.

The key to the origin of the universe could be under water

The telescopes are composed of a series of strings coupled to glass beads. Soon humanity will have many more "eyes" scanning the universe in search of particles that we can solve the existing enigmas surrounding its origin. The high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be detected only by a few hidden devices in the most unexpected places: Inside Mountains, underground, underwater, and even in solid ice.

Scientists use them to unlock the mysteries of the universe, to know the nature of dark matter, the evolution of stars and the origin of cosmic rays.

Chilean telescope exposes the largest group of galaxies

An international team of astronomers discovered the group of young galaxies in the Universe largest telescope thanks to VTL (Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope), the European Southern Observatory (ESO, for its acronym in English), located in the Chilean desert Atacama.

Technically, scientists called their discovery ACT-CL J0102-4915, but I know so familiar with the name El Gordo, Spanish for having discovered in Chile and in honor of his size. More than 7,000 million light years from Earth, this galaxy cluster is the largest ever seen in the distant universe? It was discovered early.