Enrico Piconcelli 🇺🇦

* Quasar aficionado * Senior Astrophysicist at INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma * ViolaSempre *

[Enrico Piconcelli 🇺🇦 @cocoepico]

Starting from scratch 😜

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Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy

https://t.co/BmHG8giRbW

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Lapland Wind!

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Reflections

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Oggi a vedere un po' di Arte
#Gauguin

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@GioiaRau @Nature Great paper! Very interesting stuff.
From my side, I’m pretty worried about the minimal role of Europe here...

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Yesssssss!

[SuperTennis TV @SuperTennisTv]

𝐓𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐮𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐞 ❤️‍🔥

Flavio Cobolli vince 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 contro Bergs dopo oltre tre ore e regala all’Italia la terza finale consecutiva in #DavisCup

[Enrico Piconcelli 🇺🇦 @cocoepico]

"A deep X-ray look to the most obscured quasar at z~3.6 and its environment"

https://t.co/WSak7KPdhO

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Good night

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La nave cargo incagliata da oltre otto mesi a Marina di Massa è ancora lì

https://t.co/4iDF7Urm9d

[Enrico Piconcelli 🇺🇦 @cocoepico]

Yes! 👑👑

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#Philippines2025: ITALY 🇮🇹 GO BACK-TO-BACK 🏆✨

STILL THE REIGNING WORLD CHAMPIONS 🤩!

🎥 Highlights coming soon…

📺 Watch the match replay on VBTV: https://t.co/eNNv78iNph
🏐 #MWCH #Volleyball

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"X-ray view of the most luminous quasars at Cosmic Noon" aka WISSH XII is out !
https://t.co/RBlqzjTBpm
Degli Agosti et al.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Employees who do a four-day week but get paid for five say it improves their performance at work. https://t.co/4qb7pvw1Xp

[Enrico Piconcelli 🇺🇦 @cocoepico]

@recerusse Tanto tra 5 minuti saranno altri...ma proviamoci 😉

I fiori del Male
Moby Dick
Q
Don Chisciotte
In Patagonia

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

On this day, July 31, 1954, 🇮🇹 Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli stood atop K2 (8,611 m)—the first humans ever to reach its summit.

It began in 1856, when British surveyor Thomas Montgomerie marked the distant peak simply as K2. For nearly a century, it turned climbers back with avalanches and storms.

In 1909, the Duke of the Abruzzi retreated at 6,000 m. Americans climbed higher in 1938 and 1939 but failed. In 1953, Charlie Houston lost teammate Art Gilkey in a storm.

Then in1954, Ardito Desio led Italy’s national expedition with 11 climbers and 13 tons of gear. Mario Puchoz died early, but the team pushed on.

By late July, Camp VIII was established at 25,400 ft. Compagnoni and Lacedelli were chosen for the summit push.

On July 30, Walter Bonatti and Hunza porter Amir Mehdi carried oxygen higher but could not find Camp IX. It was moved. They bivouacked in the open at 8,100 m, frostbitten and barely surviving.

At dawn, they descended, leaving the oxygen. Compagnoni and Lacedelli climbed on.

⏱️ At 6:00 p.m. on July 31, they stood on the summit of K2.

Italy celebrated, but Bonatti was accused of endangering the summit team. He fought for decades to clear his name, until Lacedelli admitted in 2004 that Camp IX was deliberately moved to keep Bonatti away.

K2’s 1954 climb remains one of mountaineering’s greatest climbs and fiercest controversies.

The Savage Mountain demanded everything: lives, limbs, reputations.

Read: https://t.co/PPKFiaFAAr

Photo ©: Italian Alpine Club Archives.

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The smile says it all 😁

#Wimbledon

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9 luglio 2006 🇮🇹💙

#Nazionale #Azzurri #VivoAzzurro

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On this day, July 03, 1953, 🇦🇹 Hermann Buhl became the first ever human to have summited Nanga Parbat (8126 m). A 41-hour solo climb through thin air and avalanche-prone slope, unthinkable then, still legendary now. Read. https://t.co/y1VmQJJjRh

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The #RubinFirstLook images are out...

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💥A week full of Quasars 💥

At the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe