Una delle notizie astronomiche più interessanti del momento è quella della comparsa, attorno all'asteroide (596) Scheila, di un qualcosa di molto simile ad una chioma cometaria. La foto che vi propongo è di Joe Brimacombe, mentre i dettagli su questo evento, ancora tutto da studiare e da comprendere, sono su Universe Today .
Per restare tra i cosiddetti "corpi minori" del Sistema Solare, domani è previsto il massimo del classico sciame meteorico di dicembre, le Geminidi. Notti migliori quelle tra il 13 e il 15, con la Luna che disturberà only moderately in the early hours of the evening. Ideal look east, toward the bright constellation of Gemini ( Universe Today and Sky & Telescope ).
Outside the Solar System now know more than 500 planets orbiting other stars, most of which are far too hot and inhospitable to think about life, at least as we know it here on Earth. It has recently been made a spectacular image that shows four planets around the star HR 8799 (Universe Today ).
Let the recent climate summit in Cancun (Mexico). There are two interesting Linko articles on Panorama, to get a picture of the situation. While it seems that there has been dialogue , and productive, you can ask what other scenarios are open now, especially with regard to forest protection . Meanwhile, NASA released a map of global warming: man-made or not, but the phenomenon is a fact, and perhaps there is nothing to worry about ( Earth Observatory).
The next weekend, in Mirandola (Modena) held an interesting meeting of the Astronomical EAN (European Astrosky Network). Link to folding invitation, addressed to all fans astronomy, and the complete program . Among other initiatives, is expected to attend the Nobel Prize winner Dario For.
The movie that I propose the following as hard a time of a football game, but it's worth seeing: this is fascinating in slow motion images of the departure of a Space Shuttle, from the first moments of ignition engines and also very unusual angles ( Universe Today).
few days ago there was the occultation of Mars by a very thin crescent moon, a phenomenon but not visible from Italy. Here's how the occultation was observed from Kansas ( Astronomy Picture Of the Day ).
Finally, two other videos: the first shows the collapse of the roof of the Metrodome in Minneapolis, because of too much snow. The disaster has been recorded by the cameras inside the stadium ( TGCOM ). The second tells us what can happen when a luxury cruise ship sailing in Antarctic waters, off the coast of Ushuaia, the sea in those parts known to be very impressive ( Corriere.it ).
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