It could be the title of a book or a movie. Instead, it’s what really happened: eleven years of relentless activity, orbiting one and a half million kilometers from home. Billions upon billions of measurements, sent to Earth daily. But let’s start from the […]
Category: astronomy
The beginning of a story
I have already shown something about this cluster, in a recent post, but this time, I can guide you to enter right into – so to speak – its heart. The heart, that is, of the young cluster of stars called NGC 1333. Distant from us only […]
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 […]
Searching for prescient tweets…
Sometimes it happens. You browse the list of papers in astro-ph, as usual. Many papers are “obviously” rather boring (since they are dealing with topics you’re not interested…), but others worth a close inspection (maybe). Sometimes it happens, sometimes you find a paper that […]
Voyager 1, so far away from home…
Voyager 1 is finally at the border of the Solar System. We’re going interstellar, baby! Here is one of the farthest noise you’ll ever listen to… Voyager, this song is for you 😉
Why Curiosity already won (in my opinion)
Only a few hours before the arrival of Curiosity on the Martian surface. The landing is a complex and intricate task, and we really hope all will be ok. The Twitter account of Mars Curiosity, of course managed by NASA, at the time of […]