Brazil Delays Stargazing Pact
Hello reader! It follows a news published yesterday ( 03/09 ), in the site " www.nature.com ", announcing that Brazil delays stargazing pact . Duda Falcão Nature - News Brazil Delays Stargazing Pact Reluctance to pay entrance fees stalls European Southern Observatory’s giant telescope. Rafael Garcia 03 September 2013 ESO The 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope in Chile (artist’s impression) will suffer setbacks without Brazilian money. On 28 August, Jorge Meléndez stepped into a room full of journalists to announce a remarkable discovery: an 8.2-billion-year-old star that was depleted in elements such as iron and aluminium in almost exactly the same way as the Sun — a hint that the older star could host terrestrial planets. In an age when astronomers are obsessed with finding another Earth, Meléndez had found something nearly as exciting: a solar twin. Even more significant than the discovery were its circumstances. Meléndez, a