This beautiful image of the Veil Nebula was acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope some time ago. Now it has been reprocessed with new techniques, which bring to light some very fine details in the delicate ionized gas strands of the nebula. To obtain such a striking image, Hubble […]
Author: mcastel
Ancient dreams, of a new future
This image is truly beautiful: it preserves intact that seed of trust that perhaps we have lost, and that can be usefully taken up again in this particular age we are crossing. The drawing speaks of a possible future (precisely, a hypothetical toroidal structure […]
Stars, stars everywhere
Again, it’s Hubble Space Telescope that comes in help to satisfy our desire of wonder, giving us the exquisite gift of this image from the globular cluster named Messier 107. What can I say? It resembles a crowded stadium before a show, when we was still able […]
Science is a game!
True science is a game, after all. This is something we easily forget. Playing is one of the most important activities of mankind, so that even little boys and girls, who are not used to lost time (such their parents), spend most of their […]
Podcasts (and my way home)
Asa a lot of other people, I have the problem of how to spend the time while I am in the car. Well, of course, the first thing to do -as everyone says – is to drive. With all the needed attention, obviously.But, while you’re driving, […]
Sunset, from the observatory
In these days, it’s a particular pleasure to come out from the Observatory (Rome Astronomical Observatory, which actually it’s not in the city but in the outskirt) to admire the beautiful and very suggestive sunsets, wonderful moments that only nature can produce.I’ve taken some […]