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.

During the formation of the Moon was attacked by asteroids

That was the motive that the visible side of the moon almost completely covered by seas and plains landforms, and on the other side a lot more hills and uplands. This was proved by Japanese researchers led by Ryosuke Nakamura of the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology in Tsukuba.

Where to look for the "perfect storm"?

Many of the population of the Earth are often not even aware that beyond the Earth, on the surface of other planets - and not only, by the way, the planets - the solar system sometimes furious incredible storms.

Over the past decade, the spacecraft was a lot of pictures of the amazing extraterrestrial phenomena on the scale exceeding everything that we can watch on their home planet.