- 28 December 2021
In the year 1995 we had a chance to watch the movie Golden Eye from the spy series about James Bond. The following year, 1996, the development of another Golden Eye began – the James Webb Telescope. Today, on December 25, 2021, we welcomed its successful launch. Where did it go and what will it do in the coming days?
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- 22 December 2021
A calendar is a set of rules that governs relationships between different time intervals. But how did we come to this conclusion in the first place? Let’s try to find out below.
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- 19 December 2021
In 2015, ‘New Horizons’ passed by Pluto. Scientists worldwide were baffled as the former planet is in every sense more complicated than anyone imagined. In fact, it turned out to be far more interesting than 99% of the bodies of our system.
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- 19 December 2021
Knowledge is power, so we have created the fifth part of our glossary list to help expand your basic understanding of Astro terms.
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- 8 December 2021
In March this year, the American company Rocket Lab presented its new Neutron rocket, a medium-type launcher capable of placing 8 tons in low orbit. The introduction of this launcher marked a radical change in the business model of the company.
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- 8 December 2021
British scientists have discovered that black holes have an interesting property, which could be in line with the predictions of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking. It could also help unite the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics and solve the well-known paradox of missing information in black holes.
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- 2 December 2021
In the previous blog we talked a little about the definition of variable stars and binary systems. Today we wanted to explore the individual subcategories a little further, so let’s get started.
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- 25 November 2021
All stars differ from each other. In fact, they differ in so many things like size, mass, color, and temperature but also in the way they change their brightness. This is an interesting phenomenon that’s been bothering astronomers since the Middle Ages. Let’s break that down a bit more in this article.
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- 25 November 2021
Have you been hungry for some new Astro knowledge? I hope so, because in today’s blog we’ll discover which planets shine brightest and how astronomers can guess their approximate surface temperatures simply by taking a look.
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- 18 November 2021
Astronomers state that only 2,500 stars are visible to the naked eye from our planet Earth. The stars we see from Earth seem to be flickering. You’ve probably also noticed that they twinkle especially brightly on cold nights or right after a rain.
The question is why?
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