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24 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Luke86
How many times have you stopped to look at the Moon? Maybe during a summer night, or while watching a breathtaking eclipse. It's always there—familiar, silent, mysterious. But here’s what we often forget: the Moon is absolutely essential for life on...
8 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There is a great debate in Mexico whether the sky is being eaten by Pac-Manuīlcōzcacuāuhtli, the Aztec god of video games and gluttony, Pac-Manacatecuhtli, the Aztec god of video games and sustenance, or Pac-Mantemoc, the Aztec god who made it to lev...
22 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Tomadachi
The United States of America has a large X looming on their horizon and it will arrive in less than 2 months time. Let me explain. The first line of the X happened back in 2017. A total solar eclipse that traversed across 12 states, from Oregon to S...
24 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment BrechtFromBE
Welcome to my new blog. Here I'll be posting the results of my journey learning astrophotography, when not being busy with crypto ;-) This picture was taken with the DWARF II smart telescope. Settings shutter: 1/650 gain: 0 shots: 1 IR: cut Moon...
3 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto-Knight
K2 18b I recently came across this clip on youtube entitled "James Webb Telescope Found a possible sign of Life" by Cleo Abram. It's quite interesting but I don't really agree with it. For those of you who haven't seen the video yet - https://youtube...
22 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Tomadachi
To those who are not swept along in the majesty of it all, Astronomy and Astrology can seem a rather passive consumer of a person's time. Comets though, being one of the more visibly dynamic aspects of the heavens, are likely to catch the eye of any...
16 Mar 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Extraordinary astronomer of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was also a telescope designer. But his instruments were not always up to the standards of the time. According to Alexander Pietrow, a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astr...
1 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
The small island of Ynys Enlli, off the northwestern coast of Wales, has become the first site in Europe to receive certification as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary from the International Dark-Sky Association. Bardsey Island or Ynys Enlli, whic...
27 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Luke86
A new study has detected two pairs of supermassive black holes in two dwarf galaxies on a collision course. The observations were obtained from Chandra X-ray data and could provide useful insights into the evolution of black holes in the early univer...
12 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
I've been trying to get the kids interested in some space stuff ever since they have been little... but in Europe, it was always quite tricky to get out to see stuff, there was always too much light, especially in the Netherlands with the compac...
