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19/04/2025

Triple Conjunction – A Smiley Face in the Sky.

10/03/2025

Mark Your Calendar: A Total Lunar Eclipse Will Bring a Blood Moon on March 13-14

27/02/2025

LOOK UP: Seven planets to line up this Friday, February 28, 2025.

A PLANETARY PARADE will take place in just three days, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in the evening sky. This combination will not happen again this decade.

Four of them (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars) will be visible to the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune will require binoculars or a telescope. Saturn will be the hardest to see due to its proximity to the Sun at this time.

To observe this event, it is recommended to choose a location with minimal light pollution and clear skies. The planets will appear just after sunset.

12/10/2024

Today (October 12), Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will reach its closest point to Earth. The comet will be at its brightest!

09/06/2024

First ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star (Source: ESO)

03/04/2024

SAVE THE DATE, IT WILL BE HISTORIC! On April 8, 2024 a total solar eclipse will be visible and will turn day into night. Temperature will drop, animals will get muddy and darkness will turn sunlight into night. We won't see another total solar eclipse like this for 375 years.

The shadow of the Moon crosses Mexico, the contiguous United States from Texas to Maine, and the Canadian Maritimes for the last time for this generation.

06/01/2024

08/11/2023

These are just four of the women physicists profiled in "Her Space, Her Time": Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Vera Rubin and Claudia Alexander.

In a new book titled “Her Space, Her Time,” quantum physicist Shohini Ghose explains why women astronomers and physicists have been mostly invisible in the past — and profiles 20 researchers who lost out on what should have been Nobel-level fame.

02/10/2023

🌙✨Astronomy Highlights in October 2023 🌙✨

30/08/2023

Don't miss this! 🌕🪐

As the Sun sets on 30 August, the biggest and the brightest Moon of 2023 will rise in the east. It's a Super Blue Moon in conjunction with Saturn. A Super Blue Moon is an extremely rare celestial event, combining a Blue Moon and a Supermoon.

Happy sky gazing 🌌✨

15/08/2023

Euclid Reaches L2, Shares its First Test Image.

A new space telescope enters the game, known as Euclid. Euclid is an infrared telescope launched last month by the European Space Agency (ESA). It took 11 years to design and build the telescope, and it has just taken test images with its two primary detectors.

02/08/2023

According to our predominant cosmological models, Dark Matter accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the Universe.

This lenticular galaxy, located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus, is several times more massive than the Milky Way. This is the first time a massive galaxy has been found that doesn’t show signs of Dark Matter, which is a serious challenge to our current cosmological models.