Tag: Gemini South Telescope

Triton Fosters Rare Icy Union between Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen

Triton Fosters Rare Icy Union between Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen

An international team of scientists used the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) to discover an icy mixture of two common molecules (N2 and CO) on Triton. Neptune is the farthest known planet of our solar system and that’s the reason why we have minimal information about this ice giant. Thanks to the technological advancement in…

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This 170 years old Stellar Eruption is Simply Amazing

This 170 years old Stellar Eruption is Simply Amazing

The effects of the Great Eruption (which took place in 1843) can still be observed due to a phenomenon called Light Echoes. Eta Carinae is a stellar system in the constellation Carina that has at least two stars. Their combined luminosity is estimated to be somewhere around 5 million times that of our Sun. Both…

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