The NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission leaved the Earth in 2017 and the last September 2023 it returned with a surprising loot from the famous asteroid Bennu. About Bennu Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that passes …
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A family album: the spiral galaxies sitting for Webb
In the cover photo the spiral galaxy NGC 1300, a 69 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team) shows its …
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 …
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 …
New discovery about the coronal heating
A new international research published on The Astrophysical Journal Letters, with the Solar Orbiter/Metis and the Parker Solar Probe instruments, unveils the secrets of the Sun’s atmosphere. The first observational estimate of the heating rate …
Blue Moon
The last full Moon of August, the 30th, was unusual. It was a blue moon. A blue moon is not blue in color. In fact, a blue moon does not look any different than a …