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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...
25 Oct 2022 2 minute read 8 comments Duvinca
"When the stars align”, a phrase that denotes good luck, or the wish for it, that it finally arrives, that something out there in the universe enlightens us, grants us some benefit or special (or space) help. And now, right now, today, a partial sola...
18 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
In a previous article from a few months back titled, 'We should be exploding at the speed we're moving', I detailed how our planet Earth is spinning on a daily basis at an angle, while orbiting / spiraling around the sun while our entire solar syste...
27 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
Hold on to something! The planets of our solar system, include our home planet Earth are spiraling towards the sun as they speed forward around the Milky Way Galaxy on its never ending journey through the universe. The speed at which our solar system...
26 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Brummerh
Jupiter's atmosphere is mainly hydrogen gas. Because of this hydrogen gas, there are lots of storms on the surface of Jupiter. The storm is called the Great Red Spot. The Great Red Spot has been observed since 1665. This spot has been rotating for ce...
25 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Brummerh
The Moon always has a single face to us. Every time the Moon appears in the sky, we are looking at the same side of the Moon, just as if we were looking at the surface of a spinning object. The side we see changes over time, so the Moon doesn't look...
