- 23 April 2023
Copernicus worked for a long time on the conception and elaboration of the heliocenric system. He summarized his results in Commentariolus, about thirty years before De Revolucionibus.
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- 20 April 2023
After two days and this being its second attempt, the infamous Starship took off for the first time today, with the idea of reaching orbit.
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- 15 April 2023
Why is the movement of the planets so complicated? Today, when we know almost everything about their dynamics meaning the physical causes of their kinematics. But this extensive knowledge didn’t dawn on us overnight.
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- 11 April 2023
In April 1967, the spacecraft Surveyor 3 was gently lowered into the ocean of Bura, on the Moon. Two and a half years later, in November 1969, the crew of Apollo 12 landed. This was the second human mission to set foot on the Moon.
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- 8 April 2023
The Artemis 2 mission is approaching! The launch of this mission is planned for November next year, and what all the media are happy to point out is that it will be the first time in more than half a century that a human crew will be sent to the Moon.
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- 5 April 2023
Every time something lands on Mars, or crashes from Earth, we also deliver some sort of life to the neighboring planet. It’s not like it’s done on purpose, though!
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- 2 April 2023
55 years ago, on April 2, 1968, one of the most famous films in the history of cinema, 2001: A Space Odyssey, began to appear on big screens worldwide.
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- 30 March 2023
This morning the entire half of the Moon visible to us was illuminated by the Sun’s rays. We say that the Moon is “full”. At that moment, we were 391,004 km away from our natural satellite.
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- 26 March 2023
Empirical sciences, including the science of Nature, are based on our experience. And this experience evolved in historical time. Let’s look back at some interesting ideas that we still fall back on in the 21st century.
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- 23 March 2023
The existence of the Oort cloud is the answer to the questions people have always asked about comets: what are comets and where do they come from? Back in the fourth century BC, Aristotle believed that comets were clouds of luminous gas in the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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