Event Reports
Aryabhatta Astronomy Club,Haldia India Inspiring rural students to participate in Nasa Scientist For A Day Essay Contest
Aryabhatta Astronomy Club a Unit of Haldia Institute of Management is going to promote NASA Scientist For A Day Essay Contest in schools located in Rural Bengal. The main objective... Read More...
Hen’s Wings
A pair of blue wings is hovering against the inky black covering within ‘Little Fox' constellation of Vulpecula designation, portrayed with stipple sidereal in Hubble image ethereal, ‘Hen two dash... Read More...
The Sun's Light
The sun shines, its light is everywhere. The wind blows, a warm breeze we share. The food we eat is nurtured by the sun. The sun's heat is felt by... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (6): Universal Expansion
The Hubble-Lemaitre law about the expansion of the Universe does not explain all, so we can only guess if that law expands our troubles, too, or just brings more happiness. Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (5): The Lunette and Galileo
Lunette: “I can show you Milky Way's stars, Jupiter's satellites, Venus' phases, Saturn's rings Sun's spots …” Galileo: “Great! Lunette, you can save yard after yard for my cosmic trips.... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (4): The First Martyrs
Both astronomers and astrologers, Hsi and Ho were beheaded by their king in antique China because they could not predict a solar eclipse in the 2nd millennium BC. Thus they... Read More...
Global Astronomy Month 2020
Zoe CheeGlobal Astronomy Month (GAM), organized each April by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. GAM 2020 brings new ideas and opportunities that bring astronomy enthusiasts... Read More...
Philippine Telescope Hour 2020
“ If there were a million people, with telescopes, willing to get them out for the public, there will be a chance for the people born on this world to... Read More...
Haldia Institute of Management starts an Astronomy Club
Haldia Institute of Management located in Haldia ,West Bengal,India for the first time since it's inception in 2004 has started an Astronomy Club. The main purpose of this club is... Read More...
Elegy to Spitzer Space Telescope
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Another kind of astronomy without borders
We started the new year, at our association "Johannes Kepler Linz", with a new key subject. Disabled people should be more in our focus. So we invited an amateurastronomer who... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (3): Newton’s Apple
Goddess of astronomy: “Newton, you don't need any guard To find the gravitation law. The apple is not very hard!” Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (2): Hypparchus of Nicaea
Hypparchus (2nd century BC) made the first star catalogue in antique Greece. When I was a teenager the teachers used to check the presence of the high school students shouting... Read More...
Astropoetry Moments for Astronomy History (1): Galileo’s Towers
I jumped from tower to tower for more astronomical power. Thus I used for astronomy the Tower of Pisa and the Tower of the Padua University, but now I know... Read More...
AWB SERBIA - ASTRONOMY QUIZ ON JANUARY 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 January 15th, 2019, the 5th year with... Read More...
New Beginnings for Mike Simmons
Astronomers Without Borders announces the departure of Mike Simmons as Executive Director (President). As founder of AWB, he has played a critical role in the development, growth and success of... Read More...
Celestial dance in Festive Times: The Ring of Fire to end the Decade as seen from GOA, India
William AfonsoSouth India experienced a Celestial spectal of an Annular eclipse(Ring of Fire) on 26 Dec 2019 to end the Decade. 100% totality was withnessed in cities like Mangalore, Masargood Coimbatore... Read More...
Stellar Light
Seventeen seventy-four is when William Herschel noted his strange discovery with the cry, ‘Truly a hole is in the sky!' It was in Scorpius confine, found with his sister Caroline... Read More...
Partial Solar Eclipse 2019
December 26, 2019, Malaysia – Last 26 th December 2019 solar eclipse is visible from East in Europe, Much of Asia, North/West Australia, East in Africa, Pacific, Indian Ocean. Annular... Read More...
