Toronto (Canada), 18 feb (EFE).-two new observatories, in Chile and United States, will help to reveal mysteries stellar as the processes of formation of planets in the milky way, told the Friday scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the advancement of science in Vancouver.
Both the Chilean Observatory Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Observatory Karl g. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located in United States, are being terminated but scientists attending the AAAS meeting said today that they have already begun to deliver results.
David Wilner, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Centre, pointed out that the two observatories will allow test theories that exist today on the formation of planets.
“These new eyes allow us unprecedented scales, study the movement of gas and dust disks around young stars, and test theories on the formation of planets” said Wilner through a press release.
“Power of soul and the expanded VLA allows study many more stars and solar systems, probably thousands, of what we could before.” “Will help us to understand the processes that produce the enormous diversity that we see in the extrasolar planetary systems” added Wilner.
But the scientists noted that the observatories can also unlock closest secrets as the origin of the oceans. The dominant theory today is that most of the water of the oceans came to Earth in comets that crashed against our planet.
Data collected by soul in the dust disk surrounding TW Hydare, a young star located 170 light years from Earth have been discovered deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, in warm regions close to the star.
The importance of this discovery is that the ocean water contains a high percentage of deuterium. Until now scientists thought that deuterium is only created in cold regions of the disk.
“With more studies like this one, will be on its way to more accurately measure the percentage of water in the oceans of the Earth which could come from comets”, said Wilner.
Stock photography of the Jupiter image projected on a screen during the opening of the Planetarium at the Museum of the “Tin MarÃn” in San Salvador, El Salvador children. EFE/file
