🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 The first pulsar CP1919 was used for the cover of Joy Division’s 1979 album Unknown Pleasure. Read all news in the Astronomy Bulletin of toDay. Entra e leggi le notizie astronomiche di oggi!

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1482 Paolo Dal Pozzo Toscanelli, astronomer, cartographer and mathematician, died. Read about the installation by Toscanelli of the gnomon in the church of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence! All news of Astronomy Bulletin of toDay are waiting for you! Entra e leggi tutte le notizie astronomiche di oggi!

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1965 the Soviet probe Luna 5 (unmanned) was launched; it was the eighth attempt by the USSR to perform a soft landing on the Moon. The braking rocket failed and the probe impacted the lunar surface in Mare Nubium. In this map we see the point of impact. Read all news – Entra e leggi tutte le notizie di oggi!

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1764, the astronomer Charles Messier cataloged the brilliant globular cluster M4 in the constellation of Scorpius (click on M4 to find out more). Nel 1764 l’astronomo Charles Messier cataloga il brillante ammasso globulare M4 nella costellazione dello Scorpione (clicca su M4 per saperne di più). In 1967, the lunar satellite Lunar Orbiter 4 entered the orbit of…

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1617, the German astronomer David Fabricius died. He was a pupil of Tycho Brahe, he applied himself particularly to observational astronomy. He performed numerous and constant observations of a star located in the constellation of the Whale, Omicron Ceti, discovering its variability in 1596, following this discovery the star became known…

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 Today is the World Color Day! Let’s celebrate it with the colors of the universe with this splendid Hubble image of the Orion nebula, a gigantic interstellar nursery, a cloud of gas and dust where new stars are born!! (Image Cover Hubble Credit Copyright NASA). Oggi è la giornata mondiale del colore!…