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10/08/2020

Dears! A beautiful event is approaching and sadly we are still not operational due to Covid19 :( I'd like to share with you the video from our Stargazing Experience meteor shower event 2 years ago. Hope you will be able to observe this beautiful astronomical event from wherever you are and to have you stargazing with us as soon as possible! We will keep you updated! Stay safe!

Canon 5d mk2, 12mm F2.8 lens, 153 frames 20s, iso6400

09/06/2020

MARS HAD AN OXYGEN-RICH ATHMOSPHERE
When the scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford analyzed the meteorites from Mars and the surface rocks on Mars, they found a discrepancy. They found that the surface rocks had five times more nickel than the meteorites. This meant that, though they both have similar origins in the depths of Mars, the surface rocks have signs that they’ve come from an oxygen-rich environment. The scientists believe that because of a process called “subduction” in which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate. The oxygen-rich material was drawn into the interior and was spewed back during volcanic eruptions. This means that about four billion years ago, Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and was wet and warm.

08/06/2020

THE COSMIC VACUUM CLEANER
Jupiter is the Solar System’s “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravity attracts so many comets and asteroids that the rate of their collisions is about 2,000 to 8,000 times that of the Earth.
The impact a major collision can have on life on Earth was demonstrated during the Cretaceous-Paleogene impact event which wiped out all dinosaurs and created the Chicxulub Crater. This has led astronauts to speculate that without Jupiter to take the brunt of collisions, there would have been more extinction events on Earth. Though Jupiter doesn’t exactly clean up all the comets and asteroids, it does have a strong gravitational influence which attracts many of them to collide with its surface giving it the nicknames “cosmic vacuum cleaner” or “cosmic liver.”

05/06/2020

2 FACES OF MARS
Mars’ northern and southern hemispheres are so different they could be different planets. The southern hemisphere is heavily cratered with a high elevation. In contrast, the northern hemisphere has a lower elevation with fewer craters. Scientists believe a meteor the size of Pluto once hit Mars, creating the smoother northern region of the planet.

04/06/2020

"THE MILKY WAY IS MADE OF STARS!"
The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who lived from about 460 to 370 B.C., was the first known person to suggest that the Milky Way is made of stars.
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was the first to identify and resolve the band of light as many individual stars with his telescope in 1610.
Scientists believe that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars, and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has over 100 trillion stars.
Smaller galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, have about 10 billion stars. The most stars a person can see from any point on Earth are about 2,500.

03/06/2020

MILKY WAY BELONGS TO THE SUPERCLUSTER OF GALAXIES
Scientists call the Milky Way and about 40 other galaxies nearby the Local Group. They are held together by mutual gravitational attraction. The Local Group belongs to an even larger group of galaxies called the Local Supercluster. This supercluster is about 100 million light years across.

02/06/2020

MASSIVE: 4 MILLION SUNS = 1 BLACK HOLE IN THE MILKY WAY.
The very center of the Milky Way contains a powerful gravitational force that scientists believe is a black hole, which they have named Sagittarius A*. Astronomers believe this black hole weighs as much as 4 million of our suns put together.

01/06/2020

Señoras y Señores,

Estamos muy contentos darle la bienvenida nuevamente a las Islas Canarias. Regresamos más fuertes especialmente para vosotros!. En esta ocasión, le invitamos a una aventura increíble: Observaciones telescópicas del cielo más hermoso del mundo. Vea con nosotros planetas, nebulosas y galaxias y lleve consigo los recuerdos más bellos.
Desde hoy hasta finales de junio, ¡un precio especial para todos!

Experiencia de observaciones telescópicas de estrellas: adultos desde 30 euro y niños desde 15 euro.

¡Reserve hoy y úsalo hasta fin de año en Tenerife, Gran Canaria y Lanzarote!

Llévate un trocito de cielo contigo.

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30/05/2020

LIVE!!! NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the space station from U.S. soil. The first launch attempt on May 27 was scrubbed due to weather.

29/05/2020

GOODBYE, MOON!
The Moon is drifting away from the Earth. It`s moving approximately 3.8 cm away from our planet every year. It is estimated that it will continue to do so for around 50 billion years. By the time that happens, the Moon will be taking around 47 days to orbit the Earth instead of the current 27.3 days.

29/05/2020

A TRIP AROUND THE MILKY WAY
It takes the Earth (and the Sun) 226 million years to orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy. Which means Earth has made the orbit around our galaxy about 20 times since the planet is 4.5 billion years old.
The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the galactic center, a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately 1/1300 of the speed of light.

28/05/2020

THE OLDEST AND MOST DISTANT KNOWN GALAXY
GN-z11 in Ursa Major is currently the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe. GN-z11 has a spectroscopic redshift of z = 11.09, which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately 32 billion light-years (9.8 billion parsecs).
Compared with the Milky Way galaxy, GN-z11 is twenty-five times smaller, has 1% of the mass, and is forming new stars approximately twenty times faster. With a stellar age estimated at 40 million years, it appears the galaxy formed its stars relatively rapidly. The fact that a galaxy so massive existed so soon after the first stars started to form is a challenge to some current theoretical models of the formation of galaxies.

27/05/2020

THE LARGEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE
The largest object in the universe Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (Her-CrB GW) is over 10 billion light years long and theoretically shouldn't even exist - the Her-CrB GW is larger than the theoretical upper limit on how big universal structures can be.
Mysteries just like this are why astronomers scan the skies for a glimpse into the past, as they shed light not only on the early years of our universe, but also more about our galaxy, our solar system, and ultimately, ourselves.

27/05/2020

HOW OLD IS THE MILKY WAY?
Scientists believe that the Milky Way is one of the older galaxies in the universe. It was formed about 13.6 billion years ago and is almost as old as the universe itself, which formed about 13.7 billion years ago.

26/05/2020

LUCY - THE LARGEST KNOWN DIAMOND
There’s a planet-sized diamond in Centaurus named after a Beatles song! Astronomers have discovered the largest known diamond in our galaxy, it’s a massive lump of crystallised diamond called BPM 37093, otherwise known as Lucy after The Beatles’ song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Found 50 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus, Lucy is about 40,233 kilometers (25,000 miles) across, so much larger then planet Earth, and weighs in at a massive 10 billion-trillion-trillion carats.

25/05/2020

FOOTPRINTS FOR 100 MILLION YEARS
The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years. Why?
Since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, there's no wind or water to erode or wash away the Apollo astronauts' mark on the moon. That means their footprints, roverprints, spaceship prints, and discarded materials will stay preserved on the moon for a very long time.
They won't stay on there forever, though. The moon still a dynamic environment. It's actually being constantly bombarded with "micrometeorites," which means that erosion is still happening on the moon, just very slowly.

25/05/2020

HOW FAST IS THE SPACECRAFT?
To achieve orbit, the shuttle must accelerate from zero to a speed of almost 28,968 kilometers (18,000 miles) per hour, a speed nine times as fast as the average rifle bullet. It takes the shuttle approximately 8-1/2 minutes to get to orbit. While in orbit, the space shuttle travels around Earth at a speed of about 28,000 kilometers (17,500 miles) per hour. At this speed, the crew can see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes.

22/05/2020

HOW TO SEE THE PAST?
It`s quite simple! When you look into the night sky, you are looking back in time. The stars we see in the night sky are very far away from us, so far the star light we see has taken a long time to travel across space to reach our eyes. This means whenever we look out into the night and gaze at stars we are actually experiencing how they looked in the past. For example, the bright star Vega (pictured) is relatively close to us at 25 light-years away, so the light we see left the star 25 years ago; while Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is 640 light-years away, so the light left the star around 1380 After Christ, during the time of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. Other stars we see are further away still, so we are seeing them much deeper in their past.

22/05/2020

SAGITTARIUS B - THE ALCOHOLIC SPACE CLOUD
For those of you considering opening your own pubs, there is probably no place better than Sagittarius B. Although it is 26,000 light years away, this interstellar cloud of gas and dust contains over a billion billion billion liters of vinyl alcohol. Okay, so it’s not really drinkable, but it’s a very important organic compound that is critical to the existence of life.

21/05/2020

VENUS IS A HELLISH PLANET
Venus is a hellish planet with a high-temperature, high-pressure environment on its surface. Ten of the Soviet Union's heavily shielded Venera spacecraft lasted only a few minutes on its surface when they landed there in the 1970s. But even above its surface, the planet has a bizarre environment. Scientists have found that its upper winds flow 50 times faster than the planet's rotation. The European Venus Express spacecraft (which orbited the planet between 2006 and 2014) tracked the winds over long periods and detected periodic variations. It also found that the hurricane-force winds appeared to be getting stronger over time.

20/05/2020

IO - THE MOST VOLCANICALLY ACTIVE WORLD IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains dozens of kilometers (or miles) high. Io even has lakes of molten silicate lava on its surface.
Io’s volcanoes are at times so powerful that they are seen with large telescopes on Earth.

19/05/2020

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF MARS
The red planet is home to both the highest mountain and the deepest, longest valley in the solar system. Olympus Mons is roughly 27 kilometers (17 miles) high, about three times as tall as Mount Everest, while the Valles Marineris can go as deep as 8 to 10 kilometers (5 to 6 miles) in some places and runs for roughly 4000 kilometers (2,500 miles), which is close to the width of Australia or the distance from Moscow to Madrid.

18/05/2020

THE STRAW THIEF`S WAY
Ancient Armenian mythology called the Milky Way the "Straw Thief's Way". According to legend, the god Vahagn stole some straw from the Assyrian king Barsham and brought it to Armenia during a cold winter. When he fled across the heavens, he spilled some of the straw along the way.

18/05/2020

23 DAYS LIGHT SHOW IN THE SKY
In 1054 a supernova in the Constellation Ta**us was observed that was bright enough to remain visible during daylight for perhaps as long as 23 days. The remnant of the supernova, which consists of debris ejected during the explosion, is now known as the Crab Nebula. The common name comes from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, who observed the object in 1840 using a 36-inch telescope and produced a drawing that looked somewhat like a crab. Corresponding to a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054, the nebula was observed later by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731. The nebula was the first astronomical object identified corresponding to a historical supernova explosion.

15/05/2020

LAIKA THE ASTRONAUT
The first living mammal to go into space was a dog named “Laika” from Soviet Union. Laika was a stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow and was launched into space on the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3rd November 1957. Sadly, Laika died 5-7 hours into the flight due to overheating and stress. Poor doggo.

14/05/2020

SATURN COULD FLOAT IN WATER
Saturn is the only planet that could float in water. Although Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system, it is also the lightest planet. Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas – although the real fact here is that you would need a giant bath tub!

14/05/2020

OUTER SPACE IS ONLY 100 KILOMETERS AWAY
Although there is no official solid boundary for where space begins, the Kármán line sits at 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above sea-level and is conventionally used as the start of outer space in space treaties or for aerospace records keeping.

13/05/2020

THE MARINER 10 WAS THE FIRST SPACECRAFT THAT VISITED MERCURY
The Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft that visited Mercury in 1974. It was launched at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1973, and flew by Venus 3 months later. It then crossed into Mercury’s orbit managing to photograph 45% of Mercury’s surface. The second spacecraft to visit Mercury was the “Messenger”, it completed mapping of 100% of Mercury’s surface in 2013.

13/05/2020

DAYS WERE SHORTER IN THE PAST
The Earth’s rotation is slowing slightly as time goes on. This means that days were shorter in the past. This is because of the tidal effects the Moon has on the Earth’s rotation.