known astronomical events of the week

 

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, will meet on Tuesday to the right of the moon before dawn (Foto: Archivo )

 

Friday May 27, 2011 Andrés Eloy Martinez | El Universal22:18

Saturday May 28Look for Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system at the bottom right of the moon before sunrise Looks like a cream-colored bright star that shines more than the real stars in the night sky.

Sunday, May 29Jupiter is to the right of the Moon morning before sunrise with Venus slightly closer to the moon and to his left lower. The two planets shine much more than the real stars in the night sky, making them easy to find.

Monday, May 30The bright planet Venus is located just to the right of the crescent moon morning under the lights of dawn paint the sky. Are quite low in the sky, but with a clear horizon you can find them. Mars is in the upper right of Venus, and binoculars will help you find it.

Tuesday, May 31A partial eclipse will appear across the Arctic, as the new moon partially covers the sun will be visible from Alaska, but not to Mexico or the United States. The Moon will return to be visible as a recent low in the west on Thursday night.

Wednesday, June 1 The 2009BD asteroid will pass as  300 000 kilometers from Earth, which is less than the distance to the moon. The rock, the size of a truck, is too small to be seen without a telescope of good size. Also started the sixth month of the Western calendar and whose name takes him by the goddess Juno, the Roman equivalent of Hera the wife of Jupiter.

Thursday, June 2Look east and northeast in the late evening today to find the Summer Triangle. Its brightest, the star Vega, stands first. Look to your left below to find the star Deneb, the "tail " of Cygnus, the swan. And to his lower right is Altair, in Aquila, the eagle. At dusk look at Saturn, close to the star Porrima, whose name he takes an ancient goddess in Roman mythology, is 32 light years and is part of the constellation Virgo.

Friday, June 3The faint glow of the Milky Way today embraces the eastern horizon early in the evening. Described a high arch over the head tomorrow at first light, extending from northeast to southwest. The band of stars blurred outlines the flat disk of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Kepler has 'hunted' 1 200 planets

After two years of mission space observatory is located 408 planetary systems
 
 The satellite was launched on March 6, 2009 with a mission to find Earth-like planets (Foto: Especial NASA )

Wednesday May 25, 2011 Redacción | El Universal00:26

The Kepler telescope during their space mission has identified more than 1 200 planets, including 408 located in multi-planet systems.

One of the most prolific projects between NASA and the European Space Agency has been the observation that this year located a system with six planets.

These data were announced during the meeting of the American Astronomical Society where they discussed their progress.

The scientist David Latham of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard-Smithsonian recognizes that when the project was designed Kepler did not think they could find more than three planetary systems and is currently 408 have been counted.

The satellite was launched by NASA on March 6, 2009, travels around the Sun in an orbit similar to Earth of 372 days.

The advanced technological equipment with which the telescope has been possible to locate planets orbiting less than a degree, unlike the solar system rotating at about seven degrees. This explains why the mission has only detected planets smaller than Neptune and none as big as Jupiter.

Kepler's findings raises the possibility that among them there is a planet similar to Earth.

Currently working on the project Espresso (Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet-and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) which will have an incredible precision 'spectroscopic' that provide the scientific community pictures of other planetary systems with greater precision.

Material created ten thousand times hotter than the sun

With the creation of this matter, the densest, begins a new stage for recreating the Big Bang conditions

 

The matter was created by collisions of lead ions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and denser than neutron stars (Foto: Tomada de Cms.web )

Tuesday May 24, 2011 Notimex | El Universal00:40 

The densest matter ever observed was produced by the particle accelerator, the famous Big Bang machine which will start a new age of high-precision studies on the formation of the universe, revealed the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN for its French acronym).
This matter created by collisions of lead ions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is ten thousand times hotter than the sun's interior and denser than neutron stars, he said.

"These results program of the LHC lead ions are beginning to bring a new understanding of the early universe,"said CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer said in a statement.

"The subtleties that are already looking very impressive, " Heuer said in his presentation to scientists around the world in the Quark Matter conference that takes place in Annecy, France.
In the beginning, just microseconds after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the basic pillars of matter.

When heavy ions collide, physicists have been able to somehow turn back time and recreate the conditions that existed at the time, "allowing us to understand the evolution of the primitive universe,''said the scientist.
This matter was created by the collision of lead ions in the large underground tunnel in the Swiss border with France, near Geneva, where scientists try to recreate the early universe.

In this case, the ALICE detector has found evidence to confirm the experiments of a decade ago at CERN made ​​there and then carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States on the quark-gluon plasma, a primitive state of matter

Scientists analyzing data from the ALICE detector stressed that the quark-gluon plasma behaves "almost like an ideal fluid with a minimum viscosity.

Moreover, CERN physicists particularly sought missing link of particle theory, the famous Higgs boson, or God particle, which is what would have given mass to all others.

prove its existence this summer, however, to deny their existence will have to wait until late next year.
 According to experts if can not find the famous Higgs boson, that would mean that the theory of elementary particles is wrong.