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14 Mar 2020 1 minute read 7 comments Luke86
New measurements about neutron stars size, revealed a radius between 10,4 and 11,9 km 696.340 km.. This is the medium radius of The Sun, our host star! Ok, work with your imagination and shrink it to only 11km but... with the same mass! Yes, a star w...
14 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
"Des" project found a total of 316 Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO), 139 of which never discovered before. 6 years of observations and 11 billions of "points" analyzed. At the beginning the project "DES" (Dark Energy Survey) has been projected to study...
13 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Wasp-76b, this is the name of the planet where it rains iron It's a little less massive than Jupiter, 5 millions km far from its host star, with a 2-days revolution and tidal locking (so, it shows always the same hemisphere to its host star ) Welcome...
12 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Everyone has a zodiac sign based on his/her birthday which is probably wrong Do you want to put in trouble your friends with one simple question? Well, follow me reading this article and i will explain how. (example) Your friend tells "My sign is Cap...
9 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Studies made by Curiosity rover between 2012 and 2017 revealed thiophenes A tireless worker: Curiosity, landed on Mars in 2012, is unstoppable. Its activity allows to discover something new everyday, week after week, year after year with one single p...
3 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
Why can we find gold, platinum and other heavy elements on Earth? We know they exist and we know that their value is very high: gold and platinum are probably two of the most well-know metals, especially for their money value, and we know they're not...
1 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
The team leading by the Italian astrophysicist Simona Giacintucci, discovered it in the Ophiucus cluster 400-millions-light-years far from us. This is the distance where, few days ago, has been discovered the second biggest explosion in the Universe,...
28 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
From theory to reality: in recent times, two interstellar object visited us Until 2017, their existence was just a theory, but today we know they really exist: I'm talking about interstellar objects, asteroids and comets coming from outer space, whic...
28 Feb 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
2020 CD3, the temporary name of this object, has been "captured" about 3 years ago Its size is included between 2 and 3,5 meters: formerly a car, but obviously i'm not talking about the Elon Musk's Tesla, sent in open space 2 years ago. It consist in...
26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
In 1995 the Galileo mission meet the biggest planet of the Solar System, Jupiter, to study it after Pioneer and Voyager probes in the ‘80s. At that time Galileo, among the various measurement it made, discovered that the atmosphere of Jupiter was ver...
