Red Moon by Massimo Capaccioli

Red Moon by Massimo Capaccioli

Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon.

Massimo Capaccioli, the formerly full professor of astronomy at the Universities of Padua and then Naples Federico II, is currently a professor emeritus. A student in Texas of Gérard de Vaucouleurs, he has worked mainly on the dynamics and evolution of stellar systems and observational cosmology, publishing more than 550 scientific papers in international journals and some university textbooks (including The foundations of Celestial Mechanics, Springer 2022, with E. Bannikova). The director of the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory in Naples from 1993 to 2005, he realized, in synergy with the European Southern Observatory, the VST telescope, specialized for astronomical surveys and operational since 2011 on Cerro Paranal in Chile. He chaired the Italian Astronomical Society for a decade and the National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Naples and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Astrophysics. He has been awarded four honorary degreesin foreign countries. A freelance journalist and a passionate popularizer, he has collaborated with various newspapers and the Italian television and also founded a scientific journal in Arabic. He is the author of several popularization books.

 

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ISBN 13	9783031547591
ISBN 10	3031547594
Title	Red Moon
Author	Massimo Capaccioli
Series	Springer Praxis Bks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2024-05-09
Number of pages	202
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