Scientific research of two young women scientists on the island.
There is a water source 11 billion years old on the edge of the universe. The journal Nature has discovered and described the group led by Italy's Violette Impelizzeri Sicilian, German Max Plack Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, in collaboration with Paola Castangia Sarda, Cagliari Observatory of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF ).
Eleven billion years ago the Earth did not exist and the theory of Big Bang, the Universe was born three billion years ago. But this cloud of water vapor already wandering in interstellar space of a remote galaxy, a quasar, near a hole nerosupermassivo. It is the oldest ever observed water and opens new perspectives in its study of the origin of the universe. The
Castangia who was in Effelsberg in Germany dealing with the first phase of the study states: "We were fortunate, we have identified this mass of water vapor in the very first object on which we focused our huge eye, the radio telescope in Effelsberg , the largest in Europe, near Bonn. A discovery so unlikely, that almost did not believe it. "
We wonder when the opening of a radio telescope located in the bleed Pran'e Gerrei about fifty kilometers from Cagliari? We look forward
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