the astronomical observatory of the Jagiellonian University studies the source of water in space
astronomical observatory of the Jagiellonian University to create a space telescope to observe salt and deuterium around small bodies in the solar system. The aim of the project is to obtain a source of origin on Earth and to search for other unknown water reservoirs in space.
Telescope created as part of the HYADES project led by Michał Drahus, for which the European Research Council (ERC, European Research Council) paid EUR 3 million. The five-year project will be at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University.
How to explain the university, according to the latest research, the Earth was formed with virtually no water, so it is looking for the source of Earth’s oceans in space. Thanks to an unprecedented design for water, including deuterium, a new tool enabling scientists from the Jagiellonian University to answer key questions about the Universe, including testing it as a source of water on Earth, creating a kind of group of comets. A team of researchers from Kraków will determine the ratio of deuterium to the basic simple isotope in the observed comets and check whether these values are consistent with the isotopic composition of water in Earth’s oceans.
“Over the last 35 years, a study with a serious problem for 12 comets and obtaining an inconclusive result” – said Michał Drahus quoted in the observation of the observatory of the Jagiellonian University. “As part of the HYADES project, we will study about 50 comets in this respect and only in 3 years” – exactly. Research to determine the place and time of the formation of comets during the formation of the solar system.
from the Jagiellonian University also use the capabilities of the satellite to search for unknown sources of water resources in the Solar System. In this regard, they will examine a group of comet-like asteroids. “The information obtained on the sublimation of water ice with these bodies gives us a unique view of the water content in the main asteroid belt” – wrote Michał Drahus. The observatory showed that the confirmation of the existence of a new reservoir of water near the distance from the Sun would be important in the context of research into the origin of Earth’s oceans, as well as the history of our planetary system. The HYADES team will also carry out surveys of potential interstellar sites traversing the solar system.
The HYADES project is part of a team consisting of Michał Drahus, Piotr Guzik and Mikołaj Sabat from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University and Tomasz Kawalec from the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University.
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