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“The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics this year have painted a more strange and wonderful Universe than we could have imagined. Our knowledge and our place in the Universe will never be the same again. “ The announcement The Commission, gathered in a packed hall, announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for […]
Eyes on M31, the largest galaxy in the Local Group. Probably the object of the deepest sky most photographed, admired and studied. With the fall comes the chance to admire the famous Andromeda Galaxy in the northern sky, about 2.5 million light-years away from us. It is the largest galaxy closest to the Earth. Do […]
The October sky with its astronomical phenomena. After a summer full of astronomical events and phenomena, such as the eclipse of the Moon on 16 July last, shooting stars and beautiful conjunctions and oppositions, the month of October 2019 appears apparently less rich in phenomena. However we will be able to admire many beautiful conjunctions […]
With its apparent magnitude of +7.82, the planet Neptune will remain invisible to the naked eye during the opposition. The eighth planet of the Solar System, will find itself in opposition to the Sun on September 10th. Because of its high distance, only one probe in 1989 managed to reach it … Neptune: from the […]
At the end of October Luca Parmitano will take over the International Space Station “Looking at the horizon, chasing that, wondering what’s hiding and beyond, try to touch it with your hand. The Earth is a moving blue beauty. Now every time I look at the starry sky, or the sea, I think back to […]
The curtain on the autumn skies is about to open. The Aurigids inaugurate the month of September 2019, while at the end of the month we await an interesting planetary conjunction with our natural satellite… Constellations The constellations and asterisms typical of the autumn months begin to make their way in the September sky. Among […]
Perhaps the furthest supermassive black hole ever observed. The supermassive black hole (“quasar”) is the first case of a cloaked black hole discovered to be so far away. An international team “It is extraordinarily difficult to find quasars in this cloaked phase because much of their radiation is absorbed and we cannot detect it with […]
It has been almost a year since the first discovery of an exoplanet by the TESS satellite. To date, the mission has at least 270 “TOI” (TESS Objects of Interest) included in the assets, mostly comprising exoplanets. Three new small exoplanets discovered by the TESS mission (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). To announce it a team […]
The most beautiful “hen tail” in the Universe It’s called “hen’s tail” (from the Arabic Dhanab to the Dajajah). Its appearance, however, resembles little that of the ruffled tail of the biped of our flowerbeds… It is Deneb, the alpha star of the Swan constellation. We reveal some curiosities about one of the stars of […]
5 reasons (more) to visit Africa Thanks to the dense landscapes of uncontaminated nature, the African continent certainly offers unforgettable astrotourism experiences. Under the clear skies of some nations including Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, you can therefore take advantage of services dedicated to astrophotography and astrotourism. In order to enjoy stargazing and observe the […]