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Desde Chile descubren origen de asteroide que podría impactar a la Luna

Un equipo de astrónomos construyó una representación tridimensional del asteroide 2024 YR4, que fue descubierto recientemente y que se encuentra en las proximidades de la Tierra. Los científicos, además determinaron que el objeto se originó en...
8-Apr-2025 9:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4

Using observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have constructed a 3D representation of the...
8-Apr-2025 8:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Latest Dark Energy Survey Data Suggest Possible Variations in Dark Energy Over Time

A groundbreaking new study using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) final datasets suggests potential inconsistencies in the standard cosmological model, known as ΛCDM. If confirmed, these findings could fundamentally alter our understanding of the...
19-Mar-2025 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Tantalizing Hints That Dark Energy is Evolving — New Results and Data Released by the DESI Project

The DESI collaboration has published a new analysis of dark energy using their first three years of collected data, which spans nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars. Combined with studies of the cosmic microwave background, supernovae, and weak...
19-Mar-2025 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Instalan exitosamente la cámara digital más grande del mundo en el Observatorio Rubin

Con este componente, el observatorio instalado en Chile, pronto estará listo para capturar más imágenes que cualquier otro observatorio en la historia
12-Mar-2025 7:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history
12-Mar-2025 7:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Descubren planetas orbitando una estrella cercana a la Tierra

Utilizando la ayuda del telescopio Gemini Norte, la mitad boreal del Observatorio Internacional Gemini que financia en parte la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos y que opera NOIRLab de NSF, un equipo de astrónomos descubrió cuatro...
11-Mar-2025 6:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Planetary System Found Around Nearest Single Star

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have discovered four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s...
11-Mar-2025 6:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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