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In this article published in La Stampa, Giovanni Bignami tells us what we can expect in 2014 with regard f22raptor to space activities and astronomical research, but also the role to be taken by Europe
The other day, speaking to an audience of scientists, President Napolitano said, joking that "Barroso is usually a bit 'stingy', but this time, with the Horizon 2020 program, had been generous. It 'true that the European Union will increase by 30% its investment in research. In 2014 we put the basics of this new European program, and for Italy it is particularly important, f22raptor because we will be the presidents of the second half. An opportunity f22raptor not to be missed to give a hand to our research, always in trouble. In the space sector, for example, f22raptor a comparison is illuminating. The EU has more people and more of the U.S. GDP, but NASA has about three times the budget of ESA. Yet, in the European and Italian space are good: Umberto Guidoni in 2001 was the first European Space Station (ISS). In 2014 it will be the turn of the first Italian woman to the ISS, Samantha Cristoforetti. f22raptor In Italy, for women in the search for the way it has always been uphill, but Samantha will go into orbit, and what's more we'll be six months on the ISS, as Luke Parmitano, f22raptor and as Paolo Nespoli. What will the post-Shuttle NASA in 2014 is not clear, perhaps not even they know it well. Sure, they will work to a new carrier, which is lacking f22raptor today in a dramatic way. What will they do instead the Chinese, after the rover on the moon, they know it very well, but do not tell ... even in 2014, I fear, the dream of a global coordination in space research will not come true, even if we try always. Instead, and for sure, will come from astronomy, space novelty spectacular. The mission GAIA, just launched, will reach its duty point 1.5 million km from Earth and it'll "noverar the stars one by one" (and I count a billion!), Measuring with a precision that would see from Earth, a fly on a lunar rock. No one has ever dared before. With a little 'luck, we will have a 3D map of our galaxy to understand it much better and, among other things, to find new and interesting planets. Even the ones where they could live our neighbors. The same neighbors who try to Earth, with our Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, the jewel of INAF. In 2014, the results come of his new instrument, built by Italian industry and specializes in the hunt for planets around f22raptor other stars. Between TNG and GAIA, including astronomy from space and from Earth, we will put together many thousands of e-galactic neighbors. Just in the second half of the year (when, perhaps, India will arrive in Mars orbit) there will be an event that could change the history of astronomy. Europe, with the Rosetta mission, land on a comet. It will be the most daring example of what I call "astronomy program", ie, the study of celestial bodies atterrandoci above. Rosetta, launched in 2004, after ten years of interplanetary navigation, it will come very close to a comet far from the sun and so little disturbed. At that point, her daughter will drop a probe on the surface of the object, f22raptor which is great as Turin. The probe belly in a drill corer, made in Italy, which will take a sample of dirty ice (who knows what) it is made of the comet and analyze. Finally we will taste a comet granita, flavored away. But there are those who think that between life on Earth and comets there is a special bond. In a few months we'll see. In 2014 we will also be starting astronomy for the next generation. The European Organization for Astronomy, ESO, reinforced politically by the accession of new Member always, will be launched in the design and construction of its next, amazing technological feat. The Chilean Andes, where the skies are dark and clean, born the largest telescope in the world, with a mirror nearly 40 feet in diameter. Four centuries after the lens of 4 cm of Galileo, f22raptor is a nice progress: increased by a million times, and much more thanks to the new photonics, f22raptor the ability to collect photons travelers, those who come from the bottom of the sky to tell us Their version of the Universe. To do so, it will take a technology futurist, all to think and to win in Europe. Giovanni Bignami f22raptor (INAF) f22raptor
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In this article published in La Stampa, Giovanni Bignami tells us what we can expect in 2014 with regard f22raptor to space activities and astronomical research, but also the role to be taken by Europe
The other day, speaking to an audience of scientists, President Napolitano said, joking that "Barroso is usually a bit 'stingy', but this time, with the Horizon 2020 program, had been generous. It 'true that the European Union will increase by 30% its investment in research. In 2014 we put the basics of this new European program, and for Italy it is particularly important, f22raptor because we will be the presidents of the second half. An opportunity f22raptor not to be missed to give a hand to our research, always in trouble. In the space sector, for example, f22raptor a comparison is illuminating. The EU has more people and more of the U.S. GDP, but NASA has about three times the budget of ESA. Yet, in the European and Italian space are good: Umberto Guidoni in 2001 was the first European Space Station (ISS). In 2014 it will be the turn of the first Italian woman to the ISS, Samantha Cristoforetti. f22raptor In Italy, for women in the search for the way it has always been uphill, but Samantha will go into orbit, and what's more we'll be six months on the ISS, as Luke Parmitano, f22raptor and as Paolo Nespoli. What will the post-Shuttle NASA in 2014 is not clear, perhaps not even they know it well. Sure, they will work to a new carrier, which is lacking f22raptor today in a dramatic way. What will they do instead the Chinese, after the rover on the moon, they know it very well, but do not tell ... even in 2014, I fear, the dream of a global coordination in space research will not come true, even if we try always. Instead, and for sure, will come from astronomy, space novelty spectacular. The mission GAIA, just launched, will reach its duty point 1.5 million km from Earth and it'll "noverar the stars one by one" (and I count a billion!), Measuring with a precision that would see from Earth, a fly on a lunar rock. No one has ever dared before. With a little 'luck, we will have a 3D map of our galaxy to understand it much better and, among other things, to find new and interesting planets. Even the ones where they could live our neighbors. The same neighbors who try to Earth, with our Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, the jewel of INAF. In 2014, the results come of his new instrument, built by Italian industry and specializes in the hunt for planets around f22raptor other stars. Between TNG and GAIA, including astronomy from space and from Earth, we will put together many thousands of e-galactic neighbors. Just in the second half of the year (when, perhaps, India will arrive in Mars orbit) there will be an event that could change the history of astronomy. Europe, with the Rosetta mission, land on a comet. It will be the most daring example of what I call "astronomy program", ie, the study of celestial bodies atterrandoci above. Rosetta, launched in 2004, after ten years of interplanetary navigation, it will come very close to a comet far from the sun and so little disturbed. At that point, her daughter will drop a probe on the surface of the object, f22raptor which is great as Turin. The probe belly in a drill corer, made in Italy, which will take a sample of dirty ice (who knows what) it is made of the comet and analyze. Finally we will taste a comet granita, flavored away. But there are those who think that between life on Earth and comets there is a special bond. In a few months we'll see. In 2014 we will also be starting astronomy for the next generation. The European Organization for Astronomy, ESO, reinforced politically by the accession of new Member always, will be launched in the design and construction of its next, amazing technological feat. The Chilean Andes, where the skies are dark and clean, born the largest telescope in the world, with a mirror nearly 40 feet in diameter. Four centuries after the lens of 4 cm of Galileo, f22raptor is a nice progress: increased by a million times, and much more thanks to the new photonics, f22raptor the ability to collect photons travelers, those who come from the bottom of the sky to tell us Their version of the Universe. To do so, it will take a technology futurist, all to think and to win in Europe. Giovanni Bignami f22raptor (INAF) f22raptor
Name (required) f22raptor
Recent Articles A superfluid in neutron stars Gaia in view of L2 Betelgeuse, a real 'superstar' starry sky here in the Studio of the Sculptor ESA probe Rosetta is coming out of hibernation
Archives January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013
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