So that everyone understands her when she talks about her work, the Catalan astrophysicist Clàudia Soriano (Esplugues, 1997) says that she is a weather woman for distant worlds. The point is that she investigates the atmosphere of exoplanets –those that are outside our Solar System and orbit a star other than the Sun– through simulations that allow her to understand what happens in the gaseous layer that surrounds these planets that are thousands of light-years away from her laboratory. Since she was very young, she has had a great fascination for space and distant galaxies, and now she has become one of the young voices with the most projection in Europe in the field of space research. She currently works there from the University of Southampton, where she is doing her postdoctoral fellowship, but she does not hide the fact that she is looking forward to being able to do research from Catalonia when she finishes her stage in the United Kingdom.

NASA astronomers have directly observed silicate clouds in the atmosphere of an exoplanet known as YSES-1 c for the first time. The data were collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, which also revealed the presence of silicates originating from the circumplanetary disk orbiting a second planet in the same system, YSES-1 b. The results, published this Tuesday in the journal Nature, represent a significant advance in the direct observation of the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanets, as well as the processes that take place in them.

Lovers of the saga of Star Wars They should recall the magnificent sunsets seen from Tatooine, the home planet of protagonist Luke Skywalker, with two stars setting on the horizon. A similar scene can be seen from the planet that astronomers at the University of Birmingham have detected orbiting, for the first time, a binary system of two brown dwarf stars. However, the most remarkable aspect is that the planet's orbit follows a polar trajectory with a 90-degree inclination with respect to the plane in which the stars orbit.