Time capsule buried at ESO's Extremely Large Telescope eso.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eso.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Winter is here. In the northern hemisphere it begins on December 21 at 10:48 p.m. peninsular time (9:48 p.m. in the Canary Islands). We indicate the astronomical keys of the day.
On Tuesday, October 25, a partial solar eclipse will take place that will be visible from the northeast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands. It will be more important the more to the northeast of Europe, in.
The NOEMA radio telescope, located on the Plateau de Bure in the French Alps, has now reached its full capacity, becoming the most powerful millimetre radio telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the product of a collaboration between the CNRS, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG, Germany) and the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN, Spain). Built and operated by the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) and already the source of major discoveries, NOEMA is now poised to make unprecedented observations.