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 …
Brian May on climate change
Brian May is not only one of the most famous guitarist of the world, but he’s also an astrophysicist. He finished the PhD in 2007 and recently he has contributed to an intersting book “Bennu: …
A glass of “Juice” from the space
In this case Juice is not something to drink, the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, is the mission of the European Space Agency, travelling to discover Jupiter’s secrets. After a journey of approximately eight years, the …
Are all planetary systems similar to our Solar System?
In our Solar System the smallest rocky planets – such as Venus, Earth or Mars – orbit relatively close to our star. The large gas and ice giants – such as Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune …