Dolphins have always fascinated humans: they’re sociable, they’re intelligent, they’re very agile and they love playing in the water, doing acrobatics. There’s something more, some news from the world of bottlenose dolphins… Bottlenose dolphins squeak, …
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Feast for our eyes with the newest Webb masterpiece: the heart of the Milky Way
The Nasa agency diffused the newest image of the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a portion of the dense center of our galaxy. The Milky Way is unveiled in unprecedented detail, including features astronomers have …
Italy: aurora shines far south
Last night, Italy had a special show: the boreal aurora shined in the North of Italy. Our unusually active Sun produced a surface explosion a few days ago that sent out a burst of electrons, …
The truth about Halloween: the darkest cross-quarter day
Pumpkins, zombies, monsters, witches…trick-or-treat!!! What’s your costume tonight? If you are late, and you have no inspiration, take few minutes to read where Halloween comes from. The truth is that it’s all about astronomy! Probaly …
Bring back the Tasmanian Tiger!
The tawny coat with dark stripes, the jaws with a 80 degrees opening, these were the principle traits of the Thylacinus cynocephalus, or the Tasmanian Tiger. The last Thylacinus, a wolflike marsupial, died in 1936 …
The tomorrow anular solar eclipse
America roll your eyes tomorrow, October the 14th, to see an annular solar eclipse. This happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at its farthest point from Earth. The …