Today in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate National Space Day promoted by @ASI_spazio!
On this day in 1964, Italian engineers managed the launch of a satellite, thirds after the Russians and Americans.
You can read about this adventure in my series for @SpaceVoyaging!
https://t.co/JMQ2rvgcDH
🌌 Astronomers have released the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way to date.
🔭 The new map of our galaxy was created thanks to over 4,000 hours of observation by the VIRCAM camera of @ESO's VISTA telescope, located in Chile.
Find out more:
https://t.co/YxFC0fxxop
☀️ For the first time, scientists have observed sunspots on the surface of another star: R Doradus.
🔭 This important discovery, unveiled by @ESO, was made possible thanks to the @almaobs radio telescope in the Atacama desert, Chile.
Find out more:
https://t.co/4iLZ2MXCjP
"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man."
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
This 1.5-billion-pixel image reveals in spectacular detail the so-called Running Chicken Nebula — a vast stellar nursery located about 6500 light-years from Earth. 🤩 1/
📷 ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU
Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon, but now half a century has passed since the last moon landing.
That cannot be our high water mark as a civilization.
Humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars and be out there among the stars!
Era il 15 dicembre 1964.
Dal poligono statunitense di #WallopIsland un gruppo di tecnici #italiani guidati da Luigi #Broglio, lanciò un vettore #Scout con il #SanMarco1.
L'#Italia diventa il terzo paese al mondo, dopo #Usa ed #Urss in grado di lanciare un proprio satellite.
Today in Italy 🇮🇹 we celebrate National Space Day promoted by @ASI_spazio!
On this day in 1964, Italian engineers managed the launch of a satellite, thirds after the Russians and Americans.
You can read about this adventure in my series for @SpaceVoyaging!
https://t.co/JMQ2rvgcDH