News, curiosity and facts about the Universe and all of its objects. Practice astronomy and photography about the night sky.
25 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
“Ok, Houston we’ve had a problem here”. 13th April 1970. Jim Lovell (together with Jack Sweigert and Fred Haise) talks to Houston about a series of problems on the Odissey, the spacecraft taking him and his colleagues straight to the Moon. Few secon...
24 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. She calculated, by hand, orbits and trajectories of multiple Apollo mission, including that of Apollo 11. It has been one of the first women working for NASA, because of her incredible talent in physic...
24 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Yesterday Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes passed away. It’s normal, people born, people dead and every person in this world, even your worst enemy, deserves respect when a tragic event happened. Mike Hughes was one of the almost 8 billion people populati...
21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Our trip about curiosity and oddities about Apollo mission on the Moon. Today it's the turn of the second mission, in November 1969, the apollo 12. The crew was composed by Alan Bean, Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon. Once down from the LEM, Alan Be...
18 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Luke86
A charming history begun at the beginning of 20th century. If we want to understand how Clyde William Tombaugh got the discover, we have to start about 90 years before, approximately in 1840 Two astronomers, Urbain LeVerrier (France) and John Couch A...
15 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Luke86
Hi everyone, in the last post i spoke about "facts" that happened during Apollo mission on the Moon, in particular what Gene Cernan, the last man walking on the Moon, did. We can find these "facts" (curious actions, funny videos, experiments, funny...
4 Feb 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Luke86
Hello everyone, today i'm gonna tell you how astronomy can give you a lot of money! You can trade on NASA stocks, or any other stocks about space agency in the world or simply.. study astronomy! By the way (and jokes), few days ago i was watching th...
3 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Hello everyone, i think it's one of the most frequently asked question during public evenings observation that i use to organize. You guide your telescope to the Moon and you can be sure that someone will ask you Can i see the USA flag? The answer...
2 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Hello everyone, today i'm going to end this 2-parts article about one of the oldest and most famous fake news you can find on Internet everytime Mars gets visible in the night sky. In the first part i explained helping with math the reason why Mars w...
1 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Serious... no, Mars will NEVER be visible as big as The Moon!! And you can absolutely believe it, without any doubts. One of the most famous fake news talking about astronomy on Internet is about Mars, the Red Planet. Come on, don't tell me that you...
