🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 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!…