Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Halloween offered us with a fantastic full moon –quite a rare view, to be sure. As a matter of fact, it was, as space.com called it “a truly special confluence of spookiness; a Halloween full moon visible for most time…
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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,…
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There are a few interesting things up in this July’s night sky and specialised press, more than worth a post about them. First of all, prepare your telescopes and look for the newfound NEOWISE comet just crossing our sky, visible…
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Pink Floyd aside, the fascination of what’s called ‘the dark side of the Moon’ is widespread, even though calling it “dark side” is actually a misnomer. As a matter of fact, that side is no darker than any other part of the lunar…
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All eyes are pointed to the sky, looking at the weather, which remains the main obstacle so far to the historical Space X’s launch (why it is so crucial, anyway? read this). The launch had to be cancelled (‘scrubbed’) on…
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There has been some interesting news in these last weeks about space, both in terms of missions (I have talked about Lucy in my last post) and discoveries. Here some of the things I’ve found worth reading. We are two…
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This week’s post is devoted to this interesting new mission, after we’ve just enjoyed the last supermoon of 2020. Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans, asteroids that occupy about the same orbit around the Sun…
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In these difficult times, the space sector tends to attract less attention it used to (and rightly so); but looking at the stars and forgetting for a moment the troubles we have on Earth is something that helps me cope…
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There are a lot of headlines on the press these days about the losses in the financial markets and in many businesses, due to the economic shutdown Covid-2019 imposed all over the world, but only a few discuss the impact…
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It has been a while from the last time I’ve updated this section of the blog, so it is time for a quick roundup of recent space news. Space X makes its 50th successful landing, with the last trip to…
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