May – Maggio 21

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In the Astronomy Bulletin of toDay you will find news about interesting discoveries as nova, magnetars… Click on the article! Entra nel bollettino per gli astronaviganti di oggi e scopri le scoperte interessanti…!

May – Maggio 20

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1884 Giovanni Battista Lacchini was born, an expert on variables. During his activity at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (from 1933 to 1952) he managed to disassemble and fortunately bring to safety the precious equipment during the bombings of 1944. Nel 1884 nasce Giovanni Battista Lacchini, esperto di variabili. Durante la…

May – Maggio 19

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1961 – Venera Program: Venera 1 becomes the first artifact to pass another planet, surpassing Venus (however the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). Continue in the article.. Continua a leggere

May – Maggio 18

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1910, the Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s Comet. Technology in that era does not allow us to understand the phenomenon that spreads panic on the basis of some theses on its toxicity and media articles which, to increase sales, underline the catastrophic aspects of a probable and imminent end of the world. Click to read all news! Entra e leggi le notizie!

May – Maggio 17

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1902 the archaeologist Spyridon Stais found the Antikythera Mechanism (see detail in the photo), a mechanical device dated between 250 and 100 BC, considered to be the oldest known mechanical calculator. It was originally a sophisticated planetarium, moved by cogwheels, which was used to calculate the rising of the sun, the phases of the moon, the movements of the five planets then known, the equinoxes, the months, the days of the week and – according to a study published on Nature the dates of the Olympic Games. It was found in the wreck of Antikythera, among the remains of a shipwreck that took place in the second quarter of the 1st century BC. near the Greek island of Cerigotto (Antikythira in the local language).

May – Maggio 16

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 Take a look to the lunar eclipse in 2022 and the historical news of the Astronomy Bulletin of toDay! Entra e leggi le notizie!

May – Maggio 15

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 Welcome to the Astronomy Bulletin Of the Day – Benvenuti al bollettino per gli astronaviganti di oggi!

#johanneskepler #sputnik4 #mercury9 #jameswebb #elisabettapierazzo #protonmrocket #zhurongrover #tianwen1probe #mars

May – Maggio 14

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 2009 at 15:09 CEST (13:09 UT) the scientific satellites Herschel and Planck were launched into orbit from Kourou (French Guiana) with an Ariane 5 rocket. Read all news in this Astronomy Bulletin of toDay! Entra e leggi l’articolo

May – Maggio 13

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 Herschel Space Observatory: The telescope 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth on a Lissajous orbit in the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, has collected information about the appearance of the universe in the infrared. The objectives were as follows: to study the formation of galaxies in the early universe and their subsequent evolution, to study the formation of stars and their interaction with interstellar dust, to observe the chemical composition and the atmosphere and surface of comets, planets and satellites, examine the molecular chemistry of the Universe. Continue in the bulletin. Entra e leggi!

May – Maggio 12

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 After the sensational image of the black hole of the galaxy M87, today in 2022 the image we have all been waiting for was unveiled: the image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A, or Sgr A which is about four million times larger than our Sun and is about 27,000 light years from the Earth. It is a collaboration of 300 researchers who together form the EHT collaboration (Event Horizon Telescope) which with the interferometry system connect a network of radio telescopes located in different areas in the world. Here we see in addition to the image of the black hole also the complex system used for the project. Continue in the article! Clicca e leggi il bollettino per gli astronaviganti di oggi!