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The Juno space probe has given us a surprising new image of Jupiter, in which the gas-giant planet is surrounded by veritable swirls of clouds. JunoCam – the high-resolution camera positioned on board NASA’s Juno probe, took the picture on 1…
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After Rome and Matera, the exhibition “Mars. Close encounters with the Red Planet” has arrived in Milan, at the Museum of Science and Technology, in an edition updated with the latest news on future plans for exploration and the addition…
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Sentinel 5P, the first satellite in the world able to send a complete map of the pollutants present in the atmosphere, has been launched. The satellite left the launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, around 800 kilometres north of Moscow,…
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From 4 to 10 October will be the World Space Week, WSW, an initiative established by the United Nations on 6 December 1999 to commemorate two important historical dates: 4 October 1957, the date of the launch of the Russian…
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Today summer, the season of hot weather and holidays, ends and a new season, autumn, begins. To be more precise, for the northern hemisphere the autumn season will begin at 10:02 pm today, 22 September, with the autumn equinox, the…
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It's smaller than Jupiter and that's why EBLM J0555-57Ab has been awarded the title of the smallest star of the firmament. This new record-breaking star was discovered by a research team coordinated by the University of Cambridge, which published the…
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The PLATO (PLAnetary Transit and Oscillations of stars) mission was recently officially adopted by the scientific program of the European Space Agency (ESA), moving therefore from the design phase to that of construction of the spacecraft. PLATO will be a…
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What is GJ 625 b? It is not a car registration number but a rocky planet just discovered, with mass equal to almost three times that of Earth. Because of its characteristics, GJ 625 b has been renamed "Super Earth",…
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From the first astronomical observations to expeditions in the solar system, in his knowledge of and in his relationship with the universe, man has always moved the bar a little bit higher. In addition to continuing research and galactic travel,…