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About Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

Space & Physics Editor

About the Author

Dr Alfredo Carpineti (he/him) is an astrophysicist and communicator, passionate about science but also art, history, reading, cooking, and travelling. Alfredo mainly covers astronomy, physics, and technology stories but you’ll see his words pop up across all the categories as well appearing in IFLScience's videos. He is also the co-creator and co-host of IFLScience’s podcast The Big Questions. He is committed to fighting inequity in STEM and is the chair and founder of Pride in STEM, the largest UK charity dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ People in STEM. He’s an avid science communicator producing videos and podcasts under the moniker The Astroholic. His first book, Invisible Rainbows, is out in May 2026, published by Wilton Square Books.

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ACADEMIC HISTORY

Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"  , BSc Physics And Astrophysics  , 2007

Imperial College London  , MSc Quantum Fields & Fundamental Forces  , 2009

Imperial College London , PhD in Astrophysics , 2014

TIME AT IFLSCIENCE

2015 - PRESENT

6,564 PUBLISHED ARTICLES

LOCATION

London

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

SpaceAstronomy  Physics  Quantum Mechanics  Health
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No, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Is Not Going Backwards In The SkyThe sky is orange as it's just befor ehte dawn. not too high from the horizon, the comet and its tail are clearly visible. The tail is very long and thin

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No, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Is Not Going Backwards In The SkyThe sky is orange as it's just befor ehte dawn. not too high from the horizon, the comet and its tail are clearly visible. The tail is very long and thin
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No, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Is Not Going Backwards In The Sky

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A Ring Of Fire Eclipse Will Burn Across The Sky On WednesdayThe sun is just a pinched ring as the Moon cover most, but not all, of the solar disk

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A Ring Of Fire Eclipse Will Burn Across The Sky On WednesdayThe sun is just a pinched ring as the Moon cover most, but not all, of the solar disk
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A Ring Of Fire Eclipse Will Burn Across The Sky On Wednesday

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See How Glorious Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Looks Having Survived The SunThe layer of the atmoshere are visible and about it the comet with its long tail is visible

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See How Glorious Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Looks Having Survived The SunThe layer of the atmoshere are visible and about it the comet with its long tail is visible
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See How Glorious Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Looks Having Survived The Sun

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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]

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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]
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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova Explosions

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Our Fate To Be Destroyed By The Sun Can Be Avoided, New Earth-Sized World Suggests

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Watch Turbulence Of Plasma Swirling In The Solar Atmosphere In Stunning New VideoTwo concentric circles. In the middle one a view of the Sun in extreme ultraviole. IN the ring around it, the subtle and turbulent motion of the solar wind, strands of it move in chaotic ways away from the Sun.
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Watch Turbulence Of Plasma Swirling In The Solar Atmosphere In Stunning New Video

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Fossils Of Mars’ Climate Show A Different World 2 Billion Years Ago

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The Most Detailed Infrared Map Of Our Galaxy Has Been Released, Featuring Over 1.5 Billion ObjectsHere we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, NGC 6357, Messier 17, NGC 6188, Messier 22 and NGC 3603. All of them are clouds of gas and dust where stars are forming, except Messier 22, which is a very dense group of old stars. The other are wispy clouds of gas with bright stars embedded between them.

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The Most Detailed Infrared Map Of Our Galaxy Has Been Released, Featuring Over 1.5 Billion ObjectsHere we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, NGC 6357, Messier 17, NGC 6188, Messier 22 and NGC 3603. All of them are clouds of gas and dust where stars are forming, except Messier 22, which is a very dense group of old stars. The other are wispy clouds of gas with bright stars embedded between them.
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The Most Detailed Infrared Map Of Our Galaxy Has Been Released, Featuring Over 1.5 Billion Objects

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Mars Rocks May Contain Ancient Atmospheric Carbon – And We Could Use It For FuelThis artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment (right) – believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere – versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (left).

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Mars Rocks May Contain Ancient Atmospheric Carbon – And We Could Use It For FuelThis artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment (right) – believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere – versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (left).
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Mars Rocks May Contain Ancient Atmospheric Carbon – And We Could Use It For Fuel

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Clouds Of Interstellar Gas Might Have Changed Our Planet 7 Million Years Agoartist impression show the heliosphere as a bubble with a round edge and a long tail with the sun at its center. Ahead of it a large cloud looms
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Clouds Of Interstellar Gas Might Have Changed Our Planet 7 Million Years Ago

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Watch Incredible Footage Of Nebula-1 Reusable Rocket Exploding While LandingThe rocket is fireing is engine and it has deployed its landing gear just meters above the launchpad.

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Watch Incredible Footage Of Nebula-1 Reusable Rocket Exploding While Landing

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Hubble Tension Solved? Astronomers Race To Save Standard Model Of CosmologyThis image shows many overlapping objects at various distances. They include foreground stars, galaxies in a galaxy cluster, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy cluster. The background of space is black. Thousands of small galaxies appear across the image. Their colors vary. Some are shades of orange, others are white. Most appear as fuzzy ovals, but a few have distinctive spiral arms.
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Hubble Tension Solved? Astronomers Race To Save Standard Model Of Cosmology

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Incredible Pic Of Moon Casting Shadow On Sun's Ring Wins Astronomy Photo AwardsMany light arcs are seen in the images and as they progress shadows cast by the moon's irregularity
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Incredible Pic Of Moon Casting Shadow On Sun's Ring Wins Astronomy Photo Awards

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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Is About To Meet The Sun – We Should See It SoonThe comet is at the center of the image among a starry background. A wispy tail is easily seen extending from it into space

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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Is About To Meet The Sun – We Should See It SoonThe comet is at the center of the image among a starry background. A wispy tail is easily seen extending from it into space
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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) Is About To Meet The Sun – We Should See It Soon

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Quantum Entanglement At The Highest Energy Yet Observed At CERNTwo spherical particles connected by a light field that stretches around them and between. The background is a shaded photo of the ATLAS experiment.
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Quantum Entanglement At The Highest Energy Yet Observed At CERN

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