Event Reports
Venus Meets the Pleiades
APRIL 3 17:30 UTC This April, after 8 years, planet Venus will shine among the stars of the Pleiades, one of the most beautiful star clusters out there. It will... Read More...
Supermoon: The Largest Full Moon of the Year
APRIL 7 17:00 UTC Join Gianluca Masi, Ph.D. of the Virtual Telescope Project as we look up at the skies while all around the planet we are battling Covid-19. The... Read More...
Skywatching on Leap Year Day
William AfonsoFeb 29 2020 was of course a celebration of a Day which Come once in 4 Years. And considering that there is an astronomic reason for this , the best... Read More...
The Nebula
I went out with my telescope tonight hoping to spy some unusual sight. Looking up the sky was very cloudy, but there was some light I did see. Turning my... Read More...
Pale Blue Dot Goias 30th
Celebrating the 30 years of the pale blue dot in the Gunstar team of Astronomy institute led by the international astronomical union, we bring schools the message of empathy, ecological... Read More...
Birth of Betelgeuse Supernova
Betelgeuse has gotten brighter and dimmer for more than a century it's been remarked. But now it seems to be barely a glimmer compared to its brilliance before, which has... Read More...
Bangladesh Astronomy Research Center (BARC) has started a new journey
Bangladesh Astronomy Research Center (BARC) is an astronomy, astronomical outreach, and research-based organization in Bangladesh. This is the very first research-based organization in Bangladesh ever. It's situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh.... Read More...
About a Special Year
With love for our small place We can touch the cosmic grace. For the cosmopoetry team (Florin Alexandru Stancu, Valentin Grigore and me) 2018 (the Centenary Year of the Great... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (11): Homage to Giordano Bruno
In 1584 Giordano Bruno wrote “Ma fendo i cieli e a l'infinito m'ergo. E mentre dal mio globo a gli altri sorgo…” in his “De l'infinito, universo e mondi, proemiale... Read More...
Star Party 2020, Sri Lanka - The First Ever Astronomical Observation Competition & Workshop for High-School Students in South Asia
Introduction Star Party, Sri Lanka is the Largest High-School level Astronomical event in Sri Lanka and it is organized annually by Anandian Astronomical Association and Astronomical Society of Mahamaya Girls'... Read More...
On a Special Global Astronomy Month
This is just a personal belief (Neither conclusion nor bet): Life is a sum of novels in which Astronomy is the best novelette. 2018 was declared in Romania the Centenary... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (10): Jocelyn’s Victory
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsar, but the Nobel Prize was given to her supervisor. My moral is not quite mild: a discovery is a legal... Read More...
As temperatures rise Mercury Sets
William AfonsoA Click of Planet Mercury onthe evening of Feb 12'th 2020 from Mudipu town in Mangalore , Karnataka South India. A Team of enthusiasts waited patiently to see the Planet... Read More...
AWB SERBIA - ASTRONOMY QUIZ ON FEBRUARY 15th 2020
Every 15th of the month, except in April, AWB is organizing a small quiz featuring 10 questions on a selected astronomical subject. On February 15th, 2019, the 5th year with... Read More...
THE STRING THEORY
The string theory; the great topic for average people hunger for knowledge They say that there are only few capable to really understand it Nevertheless, it still intrigues cognitive minds... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (9): About Copernicus’ System
If someone would ask me to explain Copernicus' heliocentric system, I would say: “Watch the planets and think they (and you, too!) orbit around a boss optionally named Sun, Sol... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (8): Praise to Omar Khayyam
Nobody could be a genius in all, but Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was an exceptional Persian mathematician, philosopher, poet and astronomer, who belonged to the Arabian culture and left wonderful quatrains... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (7): “Eppur Si Muove”
Inquisition: “We don't burn you at the stake just because our irresistible methods convinced you to retract your sky sorcery.” Galileo (for himself): “And yet it moves!” Inquisition: “What did... Read More...
AAS Random Tweets
Thanks to the American Astronomical Society, throughout Global Astronomy Month, we will be featuring a Random Astronomy Fact everyday! Come back daily or tune into our social media channels to... Read More...
