The fabulous adventure of Rosetta
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March 16, 2022
In September 2016 the European spacecraft Rosetta touched down softly on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury for short), crowning a...Read more
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Carolyn S. Shoemaker, an astronomer in love with the sky
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September 8, 2021
I’d like to take advantage of this blog entry to pay tribute to a great lady of astronomy, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, who left us in August 2021. Even...Read more
Charles Messier, the comet chaser
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February 3, 2021
Qui est Charles Messier? Charles Messier is a name well known to amateur astronomers, he being the creator of a catalogue of astronomical objects...Read more
Collision on Jupiter
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August 14, 2019
It’s rare for astronomers to be able to witness a cosmic collision in the solar system. That’s what happened in July 1994, when the comet Shoemaker-...Read more
A comet to wind up the year on a high note
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November 28, 2018
The end of 2018 could have a wonderful surprise in store for us: a comet visible to the naked eye. Comets are mountain-sized blocks of ice and rock...Read more
Perseids 2018: a good year
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August 7, 2018
Under a beautiful nighttime sky, it’s not unusual to notice out of the corner of your eye the stream of light of a shooting star. A tiny pebble...Read more
The Tunguska catastrophe
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June 5, 2018
On June 30, 1908, Russia was the setting for a major, although relatively localized, catastrophe. That morning, at 7:17 local time, a ball of fire...Read more
