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Solar System
Today we are at a very privileged time in the exploration of our planetary system. The big space missions of the present and of the past have enabled us to start knowing the profile and the characteristics. So we can have a new image of this part of the universe, in which the Sun and the planets are not the only protagonists, and we find satellites, like the Moon, the asteroids, the comets, the dusts. And not only that, like a glue that does not allow the parts that are deep in space to disperse, there is the force of gravity and we make the effort to imagine a system of bodies of a different nature and size rotating around a medium sized star. We are now ready to start entering more deeply into this space.
subjects dealt with in Solar System
Solar System knowledge
The Solar System is just like our back yard respect to the vast plains of the Universe. It is a…
The Sun and planets
On our stage, the role of main actor cannot but be conferred to the Sun, a star like many others…
Other tenants
We have already mentioned that the planets with their satellites and rings are not the only bodies that occupy the…
The Earth
The Earth is not motionless in space, but is subjected to different movements. The most well-known are the rotational movement…
special reports
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20 July 2009
Man’s great leap
First steps in moon At 9:39 PM on the 20th of July 1969 (4:56 AM of the 21st of July…
14 April 2022 / Space
From the Moon to Jupiter via Mars: Space exploration in 2022
The year 2022 will also be full of new space missions: from the Moon to Mars, to the moons of…
20 March 2022 / Space
Spring is back
While the temperatures of the last days of winter and the first shoots and buds on the trees had already…
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22 January 2021 / Space
Are we children of stock cubes?
In primary school, we learned that life began in the "primordial soup", that is, in the warm ocean that covered…
20 December 2020 / Space
Twinkle twinkle little star
The Star of the Magi competes with the Angel for the place of honour on the ridge-pole of the stable.…
13 December 2020 / Space
St. Lucy’s night: a night of shooting stars
In Italy, St. Lucy’s night is known traditionally as “the shortest night of the year”, but due to the passage…
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27 October 2020 / Space
Wet moon, lucky moon
On Monday 26 October 2020, NASA revealed a sensational discovery about our Moon: there is definitely water, also on its…
2 October 2020 / Space
The Sun is heating up again: a new solar cycle is beginning
Summer has just ended but the sun has yet to start to "warm up". Our star is a huge furnace…
16 September 2020 / Space
Is there life on Venus?
We call them "Martians" because, in science fiction, Mars has always been the natural home of extraterrestrials. In fact, of…
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20 July 2009
Man’s great leap
First steps in moon At 9:39 PM on the 20th of July 1969 (4:56 AM of the 21st of July…
14 April 2022 / Space
From the Moon to Jupiter via Mars: Space exploration in 2022
The year 2022 will also be full of new space missions: from the Moon to Mars, to the moons of…
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20 March 2022 / Space
Spring is back
While the temperatures of the last days of winter and the first shoots and buds on the trees had already…
22 January 2021 / Space
Are we children of stock cubes?
In primary school, we learned that life began in the "primordial soup", that is, in the warm ocean that covered…
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20 December 2020 / Space
Twinkle twinkle little star
The Star of the Magi competes with the Angel for the place of honour on the ridge-pole of the stable.…
13 December 2020 / Space
St. Lucy’s night: a night of shooting stars
In Italy, St. Lucy’s night is known traditionally as “the shortest night of the year”, but due to the passage…
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27 October 2020 / Space
Wet moon, lucky moon
On Monday 26 October 2020, NASA revealed a sensational discovery about our Moon: there is definitely water, also on its…
2 October 2020 / Space
The Sun is heating up again: a new solar cycle is beginning
Summer has just ended but the sun has yet to start to "warm up". Our star is a huge furnace…
-
16 September 2020 / Space
Is there life on Venus?
We call them "Martians" because, in science fiction, Mars has always been the natural home of extraterrestrials. In fact, of…
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20 July 2009
Man’s great leap
First steps in moon At 9:39 PM on the 20th of July 1969 (4:56 AM of the 21st of July…
-
14 April 2022 / Space
From the Moon to Jupiter via Mars: Space exploration in 2022
The year 2022 will also be full of new space missions: from the Moon to Mars, to the moons of…
-
20 March 2022 / Space
Spring is back
While the temperatures of the last days of winter and the first shoots and buds on the trees had already…
-
22 January 2021 / Space
Are we children of stock cubes?
In primary school, we learned that life began in the "primordial soup", that is, in the warm ocean that covered…
-
20 December 2020 / Space
Twinkle twinkle little star
The Star of the Magi competes with the Angel for the place of honour on the ridge-pole of the stable.…
-
13 December 2020 / Space
St. Lucy’s night: a night of shooting stars
In Italy, St. Lucy’s night is known traditionally as “the shortest night of the year”, but due to the passage…
-
27 October 2020 / Space
Wet moon, lucky moon
On Monday 26 October 2020, NASA revealed a sensational discovery about our Moon: there is definitely water, also on its…
-
2 October 2020 / Space
The Sun is heating up again: a new solar cycle is beginning
Summer has just ended but the sun has yet to start to "warm up". Our star is a huge furnace…
-
16 September 2020 / Space
Is there life on Venus?
We call them "Martians" because, in science fiction, Mars has always been the natural home of extraterrestrials. In fact, of…
from the Multimedia section
curiosities
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The comet’s tail
Comets are “dirty snowballs” that spend most of their life at the edges of the Solar System...
The definition of a dwarf planet
Astronomy, like all scientific disciplines, is continuously evolving...
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The cosmic microwave background radiation
In 1965, while studying the ground noise of a radio antenna...
Cosmic collision
When two galaxies start to approach, the tidal attraction forces deform their structures...
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Just an ordinary day, in absence of gravity
The typical day of an astronaut in some ways is rather repetitive...
Life from space
According to some scientists life has always existed in the Universe just like the Universe...
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The comet’s tail
Comets are “dirty snowballs” that spend most of their life at the edges of the Solar System...
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The definition of a dwarf planet
Astronomy, like all scientific disciplines, is continuously evolving...
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The cosmic microwave background radiation
In 1965, while studying the ground noise of a radio antenna...
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Cosmic collision
When two galaxies start to approach, the tidal attraction forces deform their structures...
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The comet’s tail
Comets are “dirty snowballs” that spend most of their life at the edges of the Solar System...
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The definition of a dwarf planet
Astronomy, like all scientific disciplines, is continuously evolving...
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The cosmic microwave background radiation
In 1965, while studying the ground noise of a radio antenna...
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Cosmic collision
When two galaxies start to approach, the tidal attraction forces deform their structures...