Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 Convention of its kind in the City. For the convention programme and last-minute news, see the…
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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 times, in Europe and elsewhere. Due to my ongoing research, I had to study a few…
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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 been a while since I had not posted anything new, so here you have something to…
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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 area, I have paid a visit to Akihabara, the historical otaku district. Even though now the…
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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 staggering magnetic field, its instruments recorded the bow shock (=the supersonic solar wind that is heated…
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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 better understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter, analysing its solid planetary core, mapping its mighty…
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I have already written about the beautiful artwork produced by NASA over the years, so I won’t go through any lengthy explanation – this is only to give un update. Not happy to have produced the amazing exoplanet series, earlier…
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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 sending over to Earth a trove of data and imagery, some of them truly stunning. While…
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Not satisfied with having already uploaded an amazing series of recording about space events and planetary radio emissions, and even created a radio (Third Rock), now NASA had made available something really unique: the compilation Golden Record: Greetings to the…
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Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of our solar system – comes to an end. But this is also a new beginning. From…
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