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24 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Brummerh
In the early 1600s, astronomers used telescopes to observe the Moon. The first telescope was built in 1608. During this time, scientists were able to see four craters on the Moon: the three "big" craters on the lunar surface, the far side of the Moon...
24 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Brummerh
For the first one, we can look at the surface of Mars. Mars has a very thin atmosphere compared to Earth, which is less than 1% of our atmosphere In the thin atmosphere, we have clouds that are formed by the water in the atmosphere that condense to f...
15 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments eld3niz
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. As the name suggests, the detection is rather difficult and relies on phenomena like gravitational influence on nearby stars and protostellar objects. In addition to that, there is a...
9 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Lukros76
Very recently, astronomers observed a star being essentially sucked in by a supermassive black hole, and as the light of the star was being extinguished and sucked in, the "delayed" light left a sort of spaghetti path from where the star was ori...
24 Feb 2021 4 minute read 2 comments PierreL
With the Perseverance rover landing last week, everyone started talking about Mars again. But is it truly a safe haven where humanity can thrive if we fail (on) Earth? For a few minutes, let's assume that we have the technology and resources availa...
20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nanae
Hi fellows!Here I present to you some information about Messier45 commonly known as Pleiades or Seven Sisters. It is open star cluster containing over a 800 of stars* which some of them you can observe by your own eyes without using any specific equi...
6 Jan 2021 2 minute read 3 comments cMasta
(Picture from Wikimedia 👍) My New Year's resolution is to not be a shithead. I was proud of myself for being on my feet when I thought of that, but now I'm sitting on my butt. What I mean is that I want to be mostly productive. So far I have actuall...
6 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Does anyone else picture a basketballer smacking down the graph when this happens or is that just me 😂 Unfortunately, I'm not a better artist so that's what I came up with. Anyway the sky is really nice tonight and I thought about those Mars missio...
13 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Blurryface
Consider a reality and several billion paths that lead you to several billion decisions. Now take a prism shine a light through it, your given six choices. Now imagine you can jump into anyone of those colors revealing an alternate truth. But this is...
3 Aug 2020 7 minute read 0 comments alexbiojs
Introduction In this post I’d like to discuss the Comet NEOWISE phenomenon and try to find the comet with the help of Stellarium.One of the reasons is that the current situation in my city (smog) will not allow me to see even a single star. And with...
![[Software][Astronomy] Stellarium. General overview. Searching for NEOWISE (+ video-version)](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-4be97a643d1aaf8d9e03c07f3e5da53c25d1e40305168de980ea7b89b81509af.png)
