Why do we always see the same side of the Moon?

Vicent J. Martínez, Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Valencia, answers this question about the two sides of the Moon

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Sistema Solar

The Solar System highway

The Solar System has its own road network, the Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN), a ser of trajectories related to the Lagrange points.

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Kepler 62f

Exoplanets

Since the first worlds were found orbiting other stars in the 1990s, in barely two decades, more than three thousand extrasolar planets have been found.

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«Las mujeres de la Luna», by Daniel Roberto Altschuler and Fernando Ballesteros

Out of 1,600 craters in total, only 28 have a woman's name. The book calls attention to this and pays homage to these often forgotten historical figures.

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Recreation of the Trappist-1 system

Looking for life beyond Neptune

Before using conditionals and speculating, we need to set some bases. Let us start with the most basic: what is an exoplanet?

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«Violent universe» presents the most extreme scenarios in the universe

The central monograph of Mètode's latest issue, coordinated by Manel Perucho and José Antonio Font, is devoted to high energy astrophysics and cosmology.

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Flying to space for a few euros

[caption id="attachment_44035" align="alignleft" width="320"] First stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landing on SpaceX's floating platform. / Mètode[/caption] When NASA was founded, the USAF (United States Air Force) was deep into the development of what should be a true spacecraft, the X-20 Dyna Soar, a ship that would

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Astronomy and space on the big screen

The existence of habitable extra solar planets, is nothing new in science fiction cinema. Perhaps more interesting is the existence of unusual planets, such as the planet Tatooine from Star Wars (1977), by George Lucas, that orbits a binary star system.

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The extragalactic gamma-ray sky

The gamma-ray radiation represents the most energetic «light» of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Interstellar travel guide

In this article, we summarise several of the most well-known astrophysical scenarios, and offer a brief description of what we currently know about them.

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