Celebrating telescopes
The year 2009 was celebrated by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO as the International Year of Astronomy. It marked…
Astronomy
Pluto, The untold story
When I was a kid, I studied that there are 9 planets in our solar system, but this isn’t the…
The Kuiper belt
The Kuiper Belt is a region of our solar system close to Pluto’s orbit that was discovered in 1992. In…
What are these tracks in Orion?
They are reflections of sunlight from various Earth-orbiting satellites. Appearing to the naked eye as a series of successive dots…
Space weather events
A new approach to analyzing magnetic tangles in the Sun has illustrated how energy is injected into the solar atmosphere…
Mars has a liquid and metallic core
With seismic data from the InSight mission Researchers from various institutions, including the CSIC, have analyzed the earthquakes recorded on…
THE GIVING AND RECEIVING OF MEGA FLAME OF STARS
The long relationships between stars and the planets around them – including the Sun and Earth – may be even…
Ancient meteorite may reveal how life formed on Earth and more secrets of the Solar System
The ancient rock is a rare example of carbonaceous chondrite, a type of meteorite that often contains biological material. A…
THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE
Music and the detailed study of the past, present and future of the universe are closely related, united by a…
Where stars born
It has long been known that stars form from clouds of gas and dust. However, the mechanisms underlying star formation…