Fun to remember: Astro bits and pieces
- 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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Alien proof and human logic about the universe
- 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.
Read the full articleThe mysterious Japanese duo XRISM
- 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.
Read the full articleChallenge: 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?
Read the full articleThe 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.
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