Tag: space
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Here we are, Pluto. Earth is watching!
I can’t almost believe Pluto Day has arrived. While I’m writing this New Horizons, after a trip of nine years, is at T-3, 94,670…
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Summer 2015 – Events not to be missed
Summer 2015 promises to be exciting, with a lot of things going on… While I can’t *sigh* possibly attend everything, there are some of them…
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Playing with the Stars – Best Software
One of the things that has changed the most for star lovers in these last years is the sheer availability of software that allows…
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Get your own Chandra X-ray Observatory… in 3D Printing
If like me you are a 3D printing and an astronomy fan, and you have time to spare this weekend, there’s something out there…
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Going to Pluto: New Horizons’ new imagery
One of the most exciting features of New Horizons, on its way for the expected Pluto’s flyby next month, is the amazing pictures the…
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Apollo 18 (2011) – A review
“There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon.” This is how the opening line on the movie’s website, a American-Canadian SF/ horror…
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Solar System’s Best Flybys – which one is your favourite?
Thanks to Cassini, we got spoiled for flybys over planets and moons – just think that we are now at number 111 (the last…
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Guest Post – The invisible geometries of the Solar System
This is an abridged version of the article “The invisible geometries of the Solar System” by Roberto Flaibani, first published in Italian on Il Tredicesimo Cavaliere, a…
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Space missions – updates
2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations…
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The once and future Hubble – 25 years in space, and counting
It’s impossible not to celebrate these days the incredible achievements of Hubble’s Space Telescope – which has just turned 25. A joint ESA/NASA project, launched…
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Exoplanet series – strange creatures
Keeping on with my exoplanet series. First of all, some updates in their number, that keep changing – due to new observations, discoveries and so…
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Europa Report. A Review
No, Europa Report is not a Jupiter Ascending ante-literam movie (the fear is legitimate considering the astronomical proximity) and, while I have still to…
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Name (or vote) your favourite Pluto-Charon Features
It seems that nominations and votes are taking up all my time this week. After Hugos, it’s Pluto, and the NASA’s campaign to encourage…
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SF Classics – Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men (1930) is a SF novel about the future history of mankind over the next billion year or so written by…
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Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds
There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my…
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Interstellar: a long overdue (a)critical review
On a long-haul flight I’ve finally found the time to watch Interstellar, and if you have not done it yet, I advise you to. It…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City (2001) by Alastair Reynolds is a hard SF novel set in the universe of Revelation Space series. It portrays what remains of…
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Living in the Solar System, a colonist’s guide
If you have always wondered, like me, how would it be in practice living on another world, you can’t possibly miss the series recently…
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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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Dawn on Ceres: mission accomplished!
Today March, 6 NASA’s Dawn has finally completed its historic mission and entered Ceres’ orbit after 7.5 year of travel. The first space mission to have…
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Getting ready for Pluto
New Horizons is going to be at its closest to the ninth planet (controversies aside about its status – I assume here Pluto is…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 4
Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE…
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The birth of a star (actually four)
Birth is certainly one of the most emotionally charged phenomena in nature, and a star makes no exception. For much as humans tend to…
