December 2011
Georges Méliès was born 150 years ago
Maries-Georges-Jean Méliès was born on December 8, 1861 in Paris, France. Georges Méliès started shooting his films in May 1896 and brought into the new medium the ideas developed during his work as a magician because for him cinema was a show just like the ones he created in his theater. From the beginning, he experimented with various techniques and tricks and for this he’s considered the father of special effects.
Asteroid Vesta is a unique celestial body
Planet Kepler-22b is the first similar to Earth discovered thanks to the Kepler Mission
The Kepler space telescope already discovered traces of over a thousand possible planets and ten of these concern possible planets similar in size to the Earth with an orbit in the habitable zone of their star. Now confirmation arrived about one of these, called Kepler-22b, distant about six hundred light years from our solar system.
