Tag: astronomy
Pleiades, curiosity about the “Seven Sisters”, the most suggestive cluster of stars in the celestial vault. The Pleiades, sung since ancient times, are the most famous open star cluster in the northern sky. Pascoli’s “Chioccetta” goes to reach its peak of visibility in the sky. And you, how many Pleiades can you spot with the […]
“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 […]
Some of the best places on the American continent from which to observe the sky Among the perfect destinations for astronomical tourism in the world, American locations undoubtedly stand out. With its wide, uncontaminated and wild nature, with its deserts without any form of artificial lighting, the American continent is one of the most beautiful […]
Visible from the end of September. It presents different characteristics that make it a planet … fascinating! Venus, the “planet of love” will return to peep out from the glare of the Sun from September 20th. In fact, we will be able to observe the “vespers star” and the morning starting from the last decade […]
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 […]