🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 This is home. As seen from Mars, after sunset. There is a little rover with a camera on Mars — humans sent it, and it took this photograph of all of us, 160 millions kilometers away. We all are the “evening star” in someone else’s sky. We all are just a tiny tinyContinue reading “Cosmic Home”
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Galactic Diamond
Mosaic of four different terrestrial point of view of the Milky Way galaxy: a cosmic ring made by photographer Alvin Wu.
Cosmic eyes
🇪🇸 🇧🇷 🇮🇹 “Little” Cosmic Eyes: the difference a century of human advance can make. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 as seen from Earth: today (ESO telescopes, photo on the left) and about 100 years ago (Telescope of the Palomar Observatory, photo on the right). The photons arriving on Earth are the same; weContinue reading “Cosmic eyes”
A global selfie on our way to planet Mercury
Global human selfie taken with the cameras of the BepiColombo space mission on its way toward planet Mercury.
A little bit of Cosmic neighborhood
Our cosmic neighborhood: Moon, Venus, the Pleiades, as seen from our planet Earth.
The density of black holes
Black holes are the most extremely compact objects of the Universe. In fact, at their center lies a singularity: a point with zero volume, where all the mass of the black hole is compressed. The singularity is a region of infinite density — something that is not really conceivable by the human mind. Density isContinue reading “The density of black holes”
What is a Black Hole?
What is a Black Hole?
Welcome! Bienvenid@s! Bem-vind@s! Benvenuti!
[Aquà en español — Qui in italiano — Aqui en português] Welcome to “blackholewinds.space“! This page was born from the need to share the riches that my occupation gives me (I will tell about the torments only if they contain a remarkable and immediate didactic side). I am a lucky human, spending my life inContinue reading “Welcome! Bienvenid@s! Bem-vind@s! Benvenuti!”
Margherita Giustini 