General Astronomy

I’m planning on buying a 5mw green laser pointer to mount on my telescope. Is it illegal to use it at night, just pointing at the sky (not waving it around, obviously) or is it fine with the law? Must I have legal, signed documents to use for astronomy or must I be a...
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Planet Antares, also known as ‘the rival of Mars’ or ‘anti Mars’, is a class M supergiant star. Being a first magnitude star, Antares is as bright a star can ever get. Antares is approximately 600 light years from the solar system of sun and it is present in the Milky Way galaxy. Being...
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Everyone looks for something different in a holiday. Some prefer to kick-back and relax on a beach for a fortnight, whilst the very notion of not moving from a deckchair for two weeks is enough to drive some people insane. City breaks are always a good middle-ground, as there’s normally something to suit everyone....
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I’m so interested in science, mostly in astronomy. I’m 13 years old and I don’t know how can I improve my knowledge about it. Can you tell me a good way to memorize stuff and how can I know more about astronomy. Where i can learn things apart from science in school.
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It’s for a competition relating to only variable stars and I know basically nothing about astronomy. I don’t need a book on how to observe them, just more on the information about them. It would also be helpful if it would contain information about the most famous ones.
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I have finished my graduation in Maths and now want to do my Post graduation in Astronomy. Can anyone suggest me a very nice but at the same time not expensive university?
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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMNT OF MATHEMATICAL BENT OF MIND Friends, ‘Mathematics is a queen of sciences’ -It is a science amongst sciences, and art among arts. Ancient mathematicians studied Mathematics as a handmaid to astronomy and commerce. They developed Geometry to measure lands, construct buildings etc. Ancient Greeks saw it as a science...
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I have always been obsessed with anything that has to do with space. Looks like you need to know physics, calculus, etc to get a degree in astronomy. Is there any other option for me?
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One of the great discoveries in astronomy during the twentieth century was that A) there used to be life on Mars. B) at the largest scale, galaxies are randomly distributed in space. C) our star, the Sun, is located outside of the Milky Way. D) our galaxy is alone amongst the other galaxies; it...
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The ancient Egyptians view of astronomy is the birthstone to our modern view upon astrology. Ancient Greece was the last culture, which was able to understand the forgotten language of the great pharaohs. Anubis is said to be the Egyptian god of the dead, but there might be more to his character. The most...
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I got very interested in Astronomy (while looking at the meteor shower) so I started thinking about astronomy as a career option, but I want to know what classes I should take in my last 2 years of High School and also later for college. I mainly want to know about what college classes...
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Cosmic Latte is the name given to the average color of universe, which I came across recently on Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. I wondered, rather pointlessly perhaps, what would its RGB code value be? Back in 2002, after computationally averaging the light emitted by 200,000 galaxies, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University...
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