Born in 1598, Giovanni Riccioli was a Jesuit Italian astronomer who liked to throw stuff down from towers (we can’t say he experimented with gravity: in the Western world, we’ll have to wait for Newton in 1684). Among his researches, he introduced the scheme for naming lunar geography that we still use today, a system […]
My stay in Los Angeles was brief but fantastic. I had the privilege of being showed around by a local guide (and what a guide!) so that’s the good news. The bad news is that I don’t take lots of pictures when I’m around with others, so I might not remember everything I saw. I […]
If you are into space travels and want to have a themed week-end, London might just have your thing. It certainly did for us. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age A temporary exhibition at London’s Science Museum, in Exhibition Lane right next to that glorious institution that is V&A, Cosmonauts brings together memorabilia from the Russian […]
Pesco sul web questo articolo (sperando che FiammaViola non se ne abbia a male). "È ragionevole supporre che esistano innumerevoli miliardi di pianeti in cui siano comparse forme di vita biologiche e le probabilità che tali forme abbiano sviluppato l’intelligenza sono molto alte". Parole di Stanley Kubrick. 1966. L’uomo non ha ancora messo piede sulla […]
Dal Corriere di oggi. «Una specie di paradiso: lì forse c’è vita» – Margherita Hack Notizie dalla Nasa ci informano che la tanto attesa scoperta di acqua su Marte pare veramente avvenuta. Che al Polo sud di Marte ci fosse ghiaccio d’acqua lo aveva già mostrato un esperimento italiano sulla sonda europea Mars Express. Ora […]