The Crab Nebula: M1
- 25 June 2023
If you have to choose a favorite nebula, choose M1. It was shrouded in mystery for centuries and remained completely enigmatic until the new age. It is a source of important data.
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Telescope optics – test time!
- 23 June 2023
Testing optics on a star does not require any special instruments and can be done outside in the night sky. Despite this, the test is so sensitive that it detects and indicates the smallest defect in the optics of the telescope. The test also reveals many problems that are not due to the telescope structure per se and those can be fixed.
Read the full articleOort cloud structure – how many comets are we talking about?
- 19 June 2023
Research from the very end of the 20th century says that it is very possible that the number of comets that could be seen in the night sky suddenly increased at the end of the Eocene, about 36 million years ago, and that it decreased slowly for the next two to three million years.
Read the full articleWhich star is the biggest out there?
- 13 June 2023
It is not easy to determine which of the known stars is the biggest. According to recent research, it turns out that some stars are twice as massive as what was thought to be possible. Apart from that, there is also a terminological problem: do we mean the star with the largest diameter or the star with the largest mass?
Read the full articleDid you know that some stars can destroy entire planets?
- 10 June 2023
The fate of some planets is to evaporate. Astronomers rarely have the opportunity to observe this event and therefore pay great attention to it when they notice it. It provides them with a wealth of information about how planets are formed, but also what is hidden in those planets.
Read the full articleMoon Telescopes could change the game
- 6 June 2023
Imagine an observation night like this: a crystal clear sky, no dust, no moisture, no clouds, no atmosphere in fact. The stars hardly move, and you don’t need tracking. There is no twilight, it is either day or night.
Read the full articleSaturn’s rings are dying
- 3 June 2023
Saturn’s rings are eye candy for keen sky observers. They were first noticed by Galileo in 1610, but he did not know what he was seeing at that time. He had a small telescope with modest magnification, and it seemed to him that Saturn was a planet composed of three parts.
Read the full articleThe phenomenal Serbian Pyramid: Rtanj- a place of legends, healing energies and alien phenomena
- 29 May 2023
Rising majestically in isolation from the green riches of eastern Serbia, between Boljevac and Sokobanja, the Serbian pyramid- mountain Rtanj, leaves a strong (first and lasting) impression with its mystical beauty.
Read the full articleOur planetary model – Scaling it down, part 2
- 25 May 2023
In our previous blog we talked about the size of our planetary system and this story needs an ending, so the next planet is another giant of the solar system, Saturn.
Read the full articleThe Solar System, how big is it really?
- 21 May 2023
We can often see drawings of our planetary system in textbooks, but what is not shown are the true dimensions. That makes sense considering the vastness, but let’s try to get a clearer image of that.
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