Event Reports

Dec 19
2019

Happy Holidays Boomerang Message

Nebular Boomerang, as you're so called, you look like an hourglass-shaped bow tie, since your nearly symmetric lobes are sprawled to remind one more of a butterfly. Unable to view... Read More...

Dec 17
2019

THINK GEOGRAPHY, THINK GOD

I want to thank everyone for the successful Geography Exam Competition tagged "Think Geography, Think God". The competition were focused majorly on Space and space related topics. Thanks to the... Read More...

Dec 16
2019

Santa

Lots of gifts, toys and such, I am the one the children love so much. It is usually snowing this time of year. I give the head to my reindeer.... Read More...

Dec 16
2019

Astrotreasures in Romania (19)

The current Bucharest Municipal Observatory was created in 1910 by Admiral Vasile Urseanu, the president of the Flammarion Romanian Astronomical Society, which was founded in 1908 by Victor Anestin, also... Read More...

Dec 16
2019

After the Traces of Galileo Galilei

A sequence which was taken in the University of Padua (Padova in Italian, founded in 1222), where Galileo Galilei was a respectable professor of mathematics and researcher in astronomy in... Read More...

Dec 16
2019

A Comet in the Sky

There is a Comet in the sky. I think it has already passed by. Gleaming as it goes, the melted ice has again froze. With a magnitude greater than 10,... Read More...

Dec 16
2019

Astrohumanism around Targoviste International Astro-Fest 2018

Pretty stars talk in the astrofest of my heart while kind people shine With some delay, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) invites you to see a humanist... Read More...

Dec 15
2019

Heavenly Night

Starry night - Silent! All is calm, the sky so bright. Heavenly Peace - Joy! This haiku was created with respect to the poem called ""Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht," written... Read More...

Dec 12
2019

UNDER ONE SKY

Here we all are gathered under one sky on a rocky planet filled with blue oceans and richness of life forms so astonishingly differentiated We are here, but where do... Read More...

Dec 06
2019

At “Astro 2019” or How to Experiment an Innovative Astropoetry-Cosmopoetry Implant

For the national conference of the astronomical associations, organized by the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM at Targoviste and Runcu Stone, Dambovita County, Romania, November 1 - 5, 2019.... Read More...

Dec 04
2019

Walter Chossek Visited the MMAO Observatory

by Kai Staats

AWB Update - November 25 at 9:46 PM Long time supporter of Telescopes to Tanzania and dear friend of Chuck and Susan, Walter Chossek visited the MMAO observatory. So good... Read More...

Dec 04
2019

National Astronomy Day in Brazil - Adventure of the Golden Records 4 Annual Star Party.

Celebrating Astronomy Day in Brazil is a tribute to Dom Pedro II. The Brazilian emperor was born on December 2, 1825, in the São Cristóvão Palace, in Quinta da Boa... Read More...

Dec 04
2019

Ambassador Eliona visits Star High School

by Kai Staats

AWB Update - November 25, 2019 at 9:23 PM Last week Astronomy Ambassador and middle school instructor Eliona Miley visited the Star high school, roughly 23 km south of Usa... Read More...

Dec 04
2019

Lonely Neutron Star

Little's been penned about neutron stars in poems of mine as yet, nor about the stellar repertoires their core collapses beget. Then an image I happened to spy among sidereal... Read More...

Nov 27
2019

Astrobeauties in Romania (55)

This is a work based on a symbol-photo taken by the president of SARM, Valentin Grigore, during one of the three astronomical camps he organized at Runcu Stone in summer... Read More...

Nov 27
2019

Astro-Haiga for Our Sun (Transit of Mercury 2019)

In 2019-11-22 the Romanians Gabriel Corban (Runner-up of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019, Our Sun category, Royal Museums Greenwich) and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (director of SARM's Cosmopoetry Festival since... Read More...

Nov 22
2019

Astrobeauties in Romania (54)

After the partial conquest of Dacia and the death of King Decebalus (106 AC), Emperor Trajan destroyed the old Dacian Capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, and made a Roman one, Ulpia Traiana... Read More...