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2 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
Venus will get close to the Pleiades, for a wonderful show at sunset. Not so often this kind of events takes place: on tomorrow evening, at sunset, the planet Venus will get close to the Pleaides cluster, as known as the Seven Sisters, in the Taurus...
2 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Luke86
Between 24th of November and the 1st of December, Curiosity captured an huge Mars panorama 1000 images to take one of the greatest photo ever. Of course, the best of Mars, the Red Planet. The Mars Science Laboratory, better known as "Curiosity", land...
30 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
It's called BPM37093 and it's located in Centaurus constellation The scientist nicknamed it as "Lucy", as the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds", but it has nothing to do with the English band or the primitive woman found in Ethiopia. Lucy, o...
26 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Because of the pandemic, ESA has put in safe mode 4 space missions The Coronavirus pandemic is traveling through the whole world and all working sectors are interested on restrictions, even the space agencies. The ESA has recently suggested to its sc...
25 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Luke86
According to classic theory, they couldn't be formed in such a short period, but... They are huge, and it's not possible they exist after "only" 800 million years. But calculations say the existence of super-massive black holes in a primordial Univer...
24 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Atlas, or better say C/2019 Y4, would be a comet visible by naked-eye after long time. The show could be on air at the end of May 2020. In this date the long wait for a "hairy one" should finally go to an end when the comet C/2019 Y4 called Atlas, wi...
22 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Luke86
[ITA] Dal 23 al 25 Marzo, per 3 sere alle 21, un esperimento di scienza dei cittadini con l'hashtag #Scienzasulbalcone Dopo aver assistito al flash mob delle torce dei cellulari, probabilmente nella speranza di essere ripresi da qualche satellite art...
18 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
34 million years after his formation, the Earth were hit by a planet: resulting matter has become The Moon In the last article I spoken about probably collisions between Earth and some asteroids called Near Earth Asteroids (NEA), but there is 1 speci...
17 Mar 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Luke86
It was shot in 1990 by Voyager 1 probe, leaving the Solar System Do you know how big is a single pixel? Well, now imagine to shot a photo in which your house is smaller than a pixel. You would feel very very little, wouldn't you? And what do you thin...
16 Mar 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Luke86
On 29th of April, asteroid called 1998OR2 will transit at 6 millions km far from Earth Be quiet... there is NO DANGER! As always in this circumstances, it's usually screaming to danger, but it's not true. Next months, more precisely on 29th of April,...
