Category: Astro(physics)
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Space Features of the Week (18 March)
This should read more as the space news of the month, both for timing and relevance. Yes, because in these last days we heard…
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Hubble’s videos – learn to watch
What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained…
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What’s so special about Trappist 1
An otherwise unremarkable small, cool and rather faint (19 magnitude, less than Pluto, just to be clear) dwarf star located 39.5 light-years from the…
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Space Features of the Week (23 February)
Today is the moment of my periodic summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done…
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Strange features of the Solar System – giant gas planets
That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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(More) amazing images from space – A logarithmic universe
Earlier this week I have referenced NASA’s online repository Image of the Day. What I present today is way different but impressive all the…
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Images of space – what’s available online
There’s nothing better for space lovers that seeking (and finding) beautiful images of near and far space objects, some of them in amazing resolutions.…
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Space Features of the Week (25 December)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Space Features of the Week (11 December)
The usual summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you…
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Exoplanet animation – simply amazing
It’s difficult to stay up to date with all the exoplanet discovery (one article of this week was discussing a perfect twin for our…
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Space Features of the Week (27 November)
A lot of interesting things in the news this week. Even though some are not per se “new”, I found them quite captivating both…
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Eerie Jupiter – from Juno with love.
That NASA’s Juno spacecraft was going to deliver amazing science we already knew. And when, in June 24, Juno crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s…
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Space Features of the Week (26 October)
We have been somehow spoiled in the last years by a few amazing achievements, but let’s not forget that space remains as extreme a…
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Space Features of the Week (16 October)
Mainly for reasons of (lack of) time, I have decided to start a periodical feature on this blog devoted to space news. There are…
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Bye Bye, Rosetta – How to crash on a comet
All good things end sooner or later, and Rosetta’s mission – an absolute first in space exploration (read the story and the success here)…
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See you on Proxima B? Habitable exoplanets in our backyard
It is quite recent news that we might have discovered an exoplanet suitable for life orbiting the closest star to the Sun – exciting, isn’t…
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Pandorum (2009). A Review.
It seems that all SF movies I come across these days are mixed with strong – and, unfortunately, often sloppy, or unoriginal – horror…
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Stranded in LA – California Science Center
Worldcons recently seem ill-fated to me; this is the second year in a row that I can’t make it. This time, I even flew…
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Guest Post – The Moon Village and the Space Economy
(This is the English version of the article “Il Villaggio Lunare parlerà “europeo”? [Will the Moon Village speak “European”?] by Fausto Mescolini, first published in Italian on Il…
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Tabby’s Star, Aliens, WTF – The Controversy is still on
The idea for this articles comes out of a discussion with Roberto Flaibani. Roberto, whose name has already appeared here in some guest posts…
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Mars-bound – See you on the Red Planet
According to some recent news, it seems that pretty much everybody is on its way to Mars. You doubt? Have a look at the list…
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Waiting for Juno
Next week, July, 4th, the spacecraft Juno will finally enter Jupiter’s orbits after five years in space. Juno’s objectives for this mission are to…
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Costs of short-sighted politics – Brexit consequences for UK S&T
Difficult to ignore what’s happening now in the UK, and the post-Brexit mayhem. While I don’t do politics on this blog for a precise…