As the day dies, on the promontory of a mountain at the forefront of the universe, a dome opens. In the reddish opening is a telescope with unusual dimensions. Moments later, the giant’s bright eye comes to life, looking towards infinity. Mechanically we follow his movements and a question comes naturally to our mind: What …
At the same time, Galileo turned his “optical tube” to the sky and invented the telescope. She was growing 30 times. He improved the definition of the movement of bodies in space, developing the concept of inertia. This notion allowed him to explain the movement of a mass in the field of gravity. Though a …
In the Muslim world, whose intellectual centers in the Middle Ages were located in Damascus (Syria) and Baghdad (Iraq) and Samarkand (Uzbekistan), it was inconceivable that theologians would only deal with religious affairs. Indeed, the interpretation of the Koran required, for example, knowledge of geography and astronomy if only to orient oneself for prayer and …
Astronomy goes back thousands of years. It is likely that it originated in prehistoric times when our ancestors wondered about their future and the forces of nature, engraving the first symbols on stone or bone and painting the walls of caves. The first astronomical measurements date back to around 6700 years ago, when the first …
After many calculations and experiments in physics laboratories, it is believed that at the beginning of time, the universe was microscopic in size and contained a tremendous amount of energy. At the dawn of time, there was therefore no galaxy, no star, no planet, no atom, no gas, nothing. The whole universe was in a …
We must try to understand that the universe is something really gigantic, bigger than anything you can imagine! Even researchers who study this subject every day have trouble understanding what the universe looks like. We often imagine it as a kind of huge balloon filled with galaxies but a balloon that has no wall, no …
Visually, the quasars look like bluish stars a little blurry but unlike the stars, they are among the farthest objects in the universe. These are galaxies whose nucleus emits a lot of energy. Most quasars are hundreds of millions or even billions of light years away! On the thousands of cataloged quasars, two quasars are …