Challenge: A movie shot in space
- 11 November 2023
Anyone who likes the International Space Station (ISS) will also like this movie. Some frames in the film are as fascinating as in 2001 A Space Odyssey. How is that possible?
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The Milky Way is a Cannibal
- 9 November 2023
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the big ones. In the Local Cluster, the galaxy it belongs to is the second largest, behind the Andromeda Galaxy, or M 31. How did it grow so much?
Read the full articleA hymn for Luna 25
- 5 November 2023
The Soviet Union sent dozens and dozens of interplanetary missions to the Moon, Venus and Mars. For some, we didn’t even know they existed until some twenty or even less years ago. Others have achieved failure or partial success.
Read the full articleThe Indian robots woke up from their scheduled nap on the Moon
- 3 November 2023
Russia’s Luna 25 was faster than India’s Chandrayaan-3 complex. Luna 25 was the first to land on the Moon, but not as planned by its creators.
Read the full articleFrom the history of the Milky Way
- 27 October 2023
The Milky Way is a large and powerful galaxy. Of the fifty galaxies of the Local Cluster, the Milky Way is the second largest, after Andromeda. And it is very old, almost as old as the universe itself.
Read the full articleUnusual phenomena on the Moon
- 22 October 2023
One May night, more precisely on May 4, 1783, Sir William Herschel, an English astronomer who is considered by some to be the greatest observer of the sky of all time, noticed a bright, reddish spot, the size of an average star, over the Aristarchus crater.
Read the full articleFlaming Star Nebula
- 17 October 2023
At the end of the 19th century, in the constellation Auriga, John Martin Schaeberle discovered the beautiful nebula IC 405.
Read the full articleAstrogazing – In awe of Saturn
- 15 October 2023
In a recent article we wrote about Saturn entering oposition. Here is the continuation of that article in which we talk about what we can see on Saturn and its surroundings.
Read the full articleThe space Sausage that dramatically impacted our Milky Way
- 11 October 2023
One day, possibly, people will know and discover everything. This might turn out to be thanks to the incredible persistence of scientists to dig into details that often seem completely unimportant to us.
Read the full articleWhat’s up with Artemis these days
- 8 October 2023
Certainly, the most serious current project is in the hands of NASA. The Artemis program is a collaboration between NASA and several European, Asian and private space agencies and aims to return a man to the Moon for the first time since 1972 and the Apollo 17 mission.
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