General Astronomy

Look up! Just do it… What do you see? Stupid question, eh? You see the ceiling of course. And so… So far so good. When you look upwards during a sunny day while picnicking how ever, you see the blue sky. Ever wondered why the sky isn’t green nor but blue? Before answering this...
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Laser Cosmos Laser Stars Projector http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/laser-cosmos-laser-stars-projector.html The Laser Cosmos Laser Stars Projector is like nothing on this Earth! Now theres no need for a clear night to gaze at the beauty & mystique of the Universe! The Laser Cosmos Laser Stars Projector is a startling & mind-blowing light show of twinkling & shooting stars!...
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Astronomy has to be one the most humbling of all subjects to study. Just the thought of our universe, being like a grain of sand in a sandy shore of universes, is enough to make me want to crawl back under the sheets. Everything just seems so immense, andbeyond comprehension. Where does it end?...
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Beginners in amateur astronomy are faced with a number of different challenges. One of the most daunting is the choice of a telescope. There are countless to select from & too often there is minimum information on selecting the best one to buy for your specific needs & wants. Clearly, numerous newcomers to the...
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Billions of galaxies exist in the known Universe, and not any two are explicitly the same. Galaxies are large compared to what we can comprehend, various thousands of light years from end to end (a light year is approx 300,000kms a second!), others are hundreds of thousands of light years from one side to...
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Billions of galaxies reside in the known Universe, and not any two are completely the same. Galaxies are sizable compared to what we can comprehend, various thousands of light years from end to end (a light year is approx 300,000kms a second!), others are hundreds of thousands of light years from one side to...
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Like a lot of kids, my folks gave me a 60mm telescope for Christmas one year. The scope was a typical department-store brand – not very good – but to a 12-year old kid it opened up the universe. Through it I got to see the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus &...
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Galaxies, the cosmos, astrophysics, observatories, telescopes: How do we possibly comprehend the reality that the universe is beyond measure, infinite, and endlessly mesmerizing? We can’t; that is why astronomy remains so completely fascinating. It is the things in life we do not understand that most often draw our interest; that is simply a natural...
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It is in the latest Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, that readers get the confirmation that the Boy who lived is indeed interested in a science that even some Muggles are good at: Astronomy, the study of celestial objects, of space & of the physical universe as a...
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON brings together for the first, and possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission that flew to the Moon along with visually stunning archival material re-mastered from the original NASA film footage. The new documentary In the Shadow of the Moon attempts to redress...
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What child hasn’t looked up into the night sky & marveled at the sight? These tiny specs of light painted against the infinite background of space have inspired poets to rhyme, composers to pen classics, scientists & philosophers to ponder our very origins. Astronomy continues to be one of the more popular hobbies. One...
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For thousands of years, human beings have used the night sky to navigate, keep track of the seasons, and inspire myths & legends. The tradition of naming stars is as old as history itself… Before modern times, how ever, humans could only name the stars that were visible in the night skya tiny fraction...
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