Rome [ENA] The Milky Way galaxy continues to produce the equivalent of one Sun every year, in the past, that rate was up to 100 times greater. To understand how stars like our Sun formed, it’s necessary to look billions of years into the past. The NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will act as a time machine to look keenly back into the early universe. To look back even further, astronomers will also take advantage of natural,   [Full story...]

Rome [ENA] On 1 July 2019 Brill, the international scholarly editor, published Rethinking Europe War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands. The volume whose editors are Gerhild Scholz Williams, Sigrun Haude and Christian Schneider throw interesting sidelights upon The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). This war lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Commonly portrayed as the concluding   [Full story...]