Hello everybody. In this Covid-19 (returning or ever-present, depending on which part of the globe you find yourself) madness, it is easy to forget to look up at the sky. Still, we have a lot of good reasons we should, even now.
Black Holes starring. It is this week’s news that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists (Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez) for their work on these mysterious objects. But black holes continue to attract interest and research, like this article from Space.com that discusses a series of theoretical black holes, even stranger than the ones we now know existing for a fact. If they are indeed real, we’re way beyond any SF novel you may dream of. Read it out here.
ISS Expedition 63 is on its way home, while Team 64 is getting ready to go, with a take-off on October 14. It’s a good time to have a look of all the great things Expedition 63 has achieved in its stay up there.
Want to observe the Red Planet in all its splendour? Now it’s the moment. Mars was closest to Earth than it will be at any time until 2035 (!) just a few days ago. The day after tomorrow, Oct. 13, Mars will officially reach opposition and its maximum brightness in the night sky. Mars is already brighter than Jupiter, and you can locate it rising in the east before 7 p.m., local time. Get those telescopes ready!