How to Find the North Star
- 22 July 2024
Discover how to find the North Star with our helpful guide. Learn the tips and tricks to locate this celestial beacon in the night sky.
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Thank you for visiting the Online Star Register Blog. Here we share the latest news with you about the OSR gifts, our apps and about what we love most: the universe and the stars!
Should we be afraid of the Sun?
- 19 July 2024
The Sun is just one of several billion stars scattered all over the empty space of the universe. But for us inhabitants of this Blue Planet, it is a source of life. Although it allows us to live, it can also easily destroy us.
Read the full articleNew data emerges: Is Jupiter’s Red Spot the same it was in 1665?
- 14 July 2024
These days, ideas and evidence change like the seasons. Nothing is sacred, including astronomy facts! So, even the firmest positions are easily abandoned as soon as arguments that challenge them appear.
Read the full articleHas humanity moved on from the idea of wanting to visit Mars?
- 10 July 2024
In the sixties of the last century, serious assessments were made by experts, and deep convictions of the general public were created that going to the Moon, then to Mars, was a natural sequence of events and a historical inevitability.
Read the full articleEvolution of life on Earth: The idea of a primordial mixture
- 6 July 2024
Thanks to the Sun’s heat and the atmosphere that makes it tolerable, but also protects the planet from deadly ultraviolet radiation, some scientific circles claim that it was about 4 billion years ago when what we call life began. Now, let’s go through the details of this theory of evolution and along the way some we’ll pick up some other interesting ideas as well.
Read the full articleAn ode to Eratosthenes: The ancient Greek teacher linking head, spirit and mind
- 30 June 2024
The phenomenal ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and poet Eratosthenes is considered by many to be one of the greats of ancient astronomy, if not the best, then certainly the most lucid among them.
Read the full articleHubble left to work with only one gyroscope
- 25 June 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope has a serious history of almost 34 years, a history filled with numerous, often very dramatic events, some of which spoke of the near end of the telescope, of its deorbiting and going into oblivion.
Read the full articleScientists wonder: Could the universe be rotating?
- 21 June 2024
This question, say cosmologists, is both important and interesting. As often happens, the answer is not simple and easy to give despite all the accumulated knowledge of science over the last centuries.
Read the full articleFacts about the cosmos worth revisiting
- 17 June 2024
Space, cosmos or the universe – these are all lovely synonyms! So, why don’t we start by noting that space is the expanse in which the Earth and all other bodies are located: planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae and everything else that exists?
Read the full articleThe radius of the universe that is all around us
- 13 June 2024
With the development of technology, astronomers have recently finally been able to see the most distant objects that can be seen at all. These are ancient galaxies that have been sending us their light since the beginning of time.
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