ALMA: in search of our origins
Como se formaram as primeiras galáxias? Quando se formaram as primeiras estrelas? Como é que nascem as estrelas? Como se formou o Sistema Solar?
No planalto de Chajnantor, no norte do Chile, está a nascer o maior projecto da moderna Astronomia: ALMA - Atacama Large Milimeter Array. O ALMA, quando concluído em 2011, terá 50 antenas, cada uma com 12 metros de diâmetro, a funcionar na banda do milimétrico e submilimétrico.
Estes gigantescos olhos vasculharão o Universo ajudando os astrónomos a encontrar respostas para estas e muitas outras perguntas.
Como se formaram as primeiras galáxias? Quando se formaram as primeiras estrelas? Como é que nascem as estrelas? Como se formou o Sistema Solar?
No planalto de Chajnantor, no norte do Chile, está a nascer o maior projecto da moderna Astronomia: ALMA - Atacama Large Milimeter Array. O ALMA, quando concluído em 2011, terá 50 antenas, cada uma com 12 metros de diâmetro, a funcionar na banda do milimétrico e submilimétrico.
Estes gigantescos olhos vasculharão o Universo ajudando os astrónomos a encontrar respostas para estas e muitas outras perguntas.
New Worlds
The Universe was created from a cosmic explosion that happen in a specific point in space and time. Since then the most basic mater as developed and life originated. But life may have developed outside our small blue planet - in other places, within our Solar System, or in other star systems. Now these other systems are starting to be discovered.
The Universe was created from a cosmic explosion that happen in a specific point in space and time. Since then the most basic mater as developed and life originated. But life may have developed outside our small blue planet - in other places, within our Solar System, or in other star systems. Now these other systems are starting to be discovered.
Visions of the Cosmos
How can we observed all the different structures of the Universe? With telescopes! Since Galileu (1610), telescopes have developed to the current modern observatories, that from the ground or from space, allow us to study our Solar System, molecular clouds, clusters of stars, neighbouring galaxies or even the most distant galaxies in the Universe.
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How can we observed all the different structures of the Universe? With telescopes! Since Galileu (1610), telescopes have developed to the current modern observatories, that from the ground or from space, allow us to study our Solar System, molecular clouds, clusters of stars, neighbouring galaxies or even the most distant galaxies in the Universe.
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Our star: The Sun
How is the night's sky? What do does tiny bright spots of light hide? What makes our star work? A simple observation, made with the right equipment, reveals that the Sun is a very active star. But, as every star, the Sun will eventually die. What will happen to the Earth then, five billion years from now?
How is the night's sky? What do does tiny bright spots of light hide? What makes our star work? A simple observation, made with the right equipment, reveals that the Sun is a very active star. But, as every star, the Sun will eventually die. What will happen to the Earth then, five billion years from now?
