For a year now, La Civiltà Cattolica, the Jesuit periodical that has been in publication since 1850, has been sporting a special section on the front page of its website, dedicated to the Vatican Observatory. The special section is titled “A Riveder le Stelle: Novità dall’osservatorio astronomico vaticano”. That translates to “A Review of the Stars: News from the Vatican astronomical observatory”. More poetically, it is “To see the stars again: News from the Vatican astronomical observatory”. The first article there was posted last May.
The articles are also available in English in a “Vatican Observatory” section on the front page of the English version of the La Civiltà Cattolica website. The English title is less poetic, but English articles are probably more accessible to readers of Sacred Space Astronomy.
The tagline on the English website says, “Reflecting the Mind of the Vatican since 1850”. It is good to see that astronomy is part of what is on the mind! These special sections provide a great overview of the research work that goes on at the VO.
So what topics have been covered on the English La Civiltà Cattolica? These topics (click on each):
- Vatican’s robotic future is promising
- Jesuit Fr. Kikwaya Eluo is going after the ‘shooting stars’
- The Chemistry of Tea: A Taste for Heavy Water
- A year of work by the Jesuit scientists of the Specola
- Why did Jesuit Bob Macke measure the asteroid Bennu?
- ‘This is the way that God created this planet’
- Jesuits who investigated the Coriolis Effect
- Searching for the Dark Matter on the Earth
- Meet the priest who is piecing together the galaxy history
- Meet the young astronomers learning the Universe
- Thirty years after the ‘first light’ in Vatican Observatory
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