From the Bits of Universe archive — 01/12/2020 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided today that a gradual closure of the Arecibo observatory, for years the largest radio telescope in the world with its 305m in diameter, will be initiated on the island of Puerto Rico. A painful but inevitable decision: the National Science […]
Since childhood, observing the sky has always been a passion, almost a must. The arrival of the night was a magical moment for me, while the dawn was always a bit sad. You know, life runs fast during the day, while at night everything seems more muffled, everything is quieter. And the stars come. Over […]
Emotion is a highly sought-after word. It is not easy to excite someone and when someone succeeds with us, they leave us something special and unique. Getting excited by “something” rather than someone is even more difficult. We are bombarded with infinite inputs, from different media, real and virtual, and everything often seems obvious and […]
From the Bits of Universe archive — 22/09/2020 Scientists from the Slac (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory – one of the 17 national laboratories of the United States Department of Energy – have finally tested the camera of the future Vera C. Rubiin Observatory, The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): the incredible resolution […]
Internet is a wonderful world, it is a space that we all frequent every day and that brings us information, knowledge, news and fun curiosities. But it is also a world where anyone can have their say (a very advanced digital democracy) which therefore shows us its double-edged sword. What we read is not always […]
From the Bits of Universe archive — 16/08/2020 A gigantic eruption would be the most probable cause of the sudden decrease in brightness of the star Betelgeuse, which at the turn of 2019 and 2020 had caused astronomers to worry enough to suspect an imminent explosion. Its mystery was solved by the Hubble Space Telescope, […]
From the Bits of Universe archive — 30/07/2020 NASA’s Mars 2020 mission launched, the third direct to Mars that started in the last ten days after those of the United Arab Emirates and China. The launch took place from the US Air Force base in Cape Canaveral with an Atlas 5 rocket and leads to […]
From the Bits of Universe archive — 03/07/2020 A single video for ten years of the Sun’s life condensed into a time-lapse of just over an hour. The spectacular video, available at the link below, is the result of the assembly work of scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA, with thousands of […]
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