The ISS tool bag: a new image – 29 Nov. 2023
We imaged again the tool bag went lost in space early in Nov. by astronauts of the International Space Station. See our new image and video. The image above comes from a single 1-second...
We imaged again the tool bag went lost in space early in Nov. by astronauts of the International Space Station. See our new image and video. The image above comes from a single 1-second...
conjunction / planets / StarWords / the Moon
Despite the clouds, we could admire the Moon and Venus, the two brightest objects in the night sky, shining in the same spot of the sky, sharing the view with the world. We simply...
We managed to capture Venus and the Pleiades while they are offering a memorable show at sunset. Enjoy these images, ready to join our live, online feed! The image above comes from the average...
L’astrofisico Gianluca Masi, fondatore e Responsabile Scientifico del Virtual Telescope Project, è riuscito nell’impresa di fotografare la navetta Orion della Missione Artemis I, in orbita attorno alla Luna, mentre si avvicinava alla massima distanza...
In just three weeks, we will see the NASA’s DART mission at work to test asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. We imaged the target, the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos. The image above comes from...
All the five naked eye planets showed at a glance this June, at dawn, offering the rare opportunity to see all of them, in the same order of their increasing distance from the Sun....
As a message of hope, we observed asteroids (2171) Kiev and (787) Moskva on the same night, within a few minutes and in the same spot of the sky. Here we share their images....
In occasione della prima Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio, abbiamo avuto il privilegio di condividere un’esperienza unica al mondo: l’osservazione del transito della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale tra gli astri che sovrastano il Colosseo. Ecco alcuni...
For the First National Space Day in Italy, we had the privilege to bring to the community worldwide a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the flight of the International Space Station across the sky above the legendary...
Yesterday, we received the very sad news that astronaut Michael Collins, one of the three heroes of the legendary Apollo 11 lunar mission, passed away. We imaged asteroid (6471) named after him, to celebrate...
We imaged asteroid (15006) Samcristoforetti, named after Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space. The image above comes from the average of seven, 300-second exposures, unfiltered, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG...
Un’osservazione celeste del tutto particolare, nell’anno che celebra Dante Alighieri a VII secoli dalla morte. Un viaggio con gli occhi alle stelle, alla ricerca di un puntino speciale. Vi è un viaggio che, credo,...
This year, Italy and the world will celebrate one of the greatest poets ever: Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321). He wrote the “Divina Commedia” (“Divine Comedy”), one of the greatest work of world literature....
While slowly leaving the inner Solar System, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE is surfing our skies making very interesting “encounters”: last night, we caught it with globular cluster Messier 53. The image above comes from...
– Lucy spacecraft flyby: online observation (13 Dec. 2024)
– The 2024 Geminid meteor shower: online observation (13 Dec. 2024)