- 21 December 2023
When in 1908 Jack Johnson (1878-1946) unexpectedly became the boxing champion of the world in the light heavyweight category, “white” America was outraged and offended.
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- 17 December 2023
Believe it or not, twenty-five years ago, on November 20, 1998, the first segment of the International Space Station, Zarya (in Russian: zora), was launched into space by a proton-K rocket as tall as a 17-story building, from launch pad 81 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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- 14 December 2023
Until the previous century, the history of astronomy was dominated by great discoveries made by great scientists, such as Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, William Herschel and others. The number of women scientists who were recognized as innovators was very small.
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- 10 December 2023
Seeing the aurora borealis is a real challenge and rarity for most of the world’s population. Until the advent of digital cameras and modern cell phones with powerful cameras, documenting the aurora borealis happened once or twice every ten to twenty years.
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- 7 December 2023
Until the invention of the telescope, it was not clear whether there was water on the Moon or not. There were only guesses about it without any material basis, with a bit of healthy logic.
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- 3 December 2023
It is difficult to imagine a greater desolation than that which reigns on the Moon. An entire world is made of thick deposits of dust and scattered stones. Deaf, motionless, dead.
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- 30 November 2023
After World War II, life became beautiful again. The world began to rebuild, televisions, telephones, even cars slowly became part of everyday life.
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- 25 November 2023
Let us go back to some of the crucial astronomy facts one should know about at any given time; ready to expand that into more cool knowledge.
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- 22 November 2023
The universe is so big, so vast that there is no word that would faithfully describe that vastness. And the number of bodies in the universe is so great that we cannot compare it with anything familiar from everyday life.
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- 14 November 2023
JAXA, the Japanese space agency is one of the most secretive space agencies on our planet. Even the proverbial Russian or Chinese “silence” is nowhere near the “silence” of the Land of the Rising Sun.
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