Category: Media Gallery
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Snapshots from Cymera
If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend AND you’re a speculative fiction fan, there’s nothing better you can do than visit Cymera, the first SFF…
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Astronomical Clocks in Modern History
Let’s admit it: astronomical clocks are probably one of the most charming types of historical monument, and they’ve had their halcyon days during Modern…
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
In the past, I’ve often featured a few amazing snapshots taken from Hubble, Chandra and the various space probes on this blog. It has…
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Back from the otaku’s paradise – a photo gallery
I’ve spent my Easter holidays in East Asia, most of them in the magnificent city of Tokyo – and, as every time I am in the…
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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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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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(More) Space Art from NASA
I have already written about the beautiful artwork produced by NASA over the years, so I won’t go through any lengthy explanation – this…
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Dawn’s best imagery
Dawn’s mission to Ceres has certainly been one of the highlights of 2015 space missions, exploring a new world in the Asteroid Belt and…
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Broadcasting Earth to the aliens – NASA Soundcloud
Not satisfied with having already uploaded an amazing series of recording about space events and planetary radio emissions, and even created a radio (Third…
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The end of an era of planetary exploration
Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of…
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Third Rock & NASA Sound Gallery
Did you know that NASA has an internet radio station? It is called Third Rock, America’s Space Station, and it is a station “developed and operated…
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Space Art from NASA
One thing I have not paid (so far) the right amount of attention is all artwork produced by NASA, and with that I mean…
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Simulating galaxies – an amazing video
Galaxies are one of the most incredible objects in the universe, and they are in continuous evolution. Thanks to the Virgo Consortium for Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations,…
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From Titan with love
During this Christmas break (still ongoing) I was thinking about the most amazing videos I have watched in 2014, and there are many that qualify in this…
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Black holes are not all the same – A gallery
If there’s a stellar object that’s both scaring and fascinating at the same time is the black hole. Scientists are still debating about what its…
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Star Gallery: the beautiful Pleaides
If there is a space object I have always found incredibly beautiful is the star cluster of the Pleiades – alternatively called M45, or…
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Bosons and X-Rays – Hear the sound of natural particles
I have posted a while ago something about the music of space – ie, the eerie sounds celestial bodies make when translated into plasma…
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Moon(s) Gallery
After having published a list of Wonders of the Solar System, it seems just right setting up an entry in the Media Gallery with…
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Amazing videos about space
Thanks to internet you have now access to a quantity of high-quality materials about space and stars simply unbelievable. You have only to browse…
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Snapshots from LonCon 3
For the ones of you who have not made it to this amazing event, here a gallery of photos. Enjoy!
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Saturn’s best
There are not a lot of things in space cooler than planets, and Saturn can rightly claim the crown for the coolest one (I personally…
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Hello Comet! Rosetta is here
After 10 years of travel, ESA spacecraft Rosetta yesterday reached her target, becoming the first probe to ever orbit a comet. Look at the incredible…
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The amazing sound of…space
We all know by now that, differently from what SF movies led us to believe, you can’t hear a sound in space. Therefore no spectacular…
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So, so beautiful
http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-star-animation.html When a star meets a black hole a lot of strange things can happen. This video is eerily charming to look at.