Professors, scientists, accredited personnel, amateur astronomers, teachers and outdoor educators flocked at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh on 25th Feb. 2009 morning , to remark the launch of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA 2009) in Scotland. It is planned to host a variety of activities throughout the country and hosting will be conducted by [...]

FETTU – ” From Earth To The Universe ” another IYA 2009 project launched 25th Feb. 2009 25th Feb 2009 marked the international launch of FETTU project, another milestone of IYA 2009, with the initial celebration starting from United States. It was celebrated with an exhibition filled with vivid astronomy images and it’s still open [...]

The Path of the comet Lulin Click the image to get a clear view! Through this image you can determine the path of the Green Comet and have clear observation without hassle.The constellations beside the trajectory will help you to identify Lulin, when it comes to practical observation.Of course the image is courtesy of Sky [...]

Briefing: Astronomy can be mentioned as a subject that has been developed from the beginning of Mankind to the present day. Therefore, Astronomy is the oldest science in the whole world. Though, it is gathering its pace through some present day to day scientific activities. School Education, Scientific Organizations, Government & Non-Government Research Institutions and [...]

Briefing: Dharmaraja College-Kandy has a long based history regarding astronomy. But it was around the year 1996, the ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of DHARMARAJA COLLEGE (ASDRC) KANDY-SRI LANKA, legally came into existence. It is the common meeting place for students of Dharmaraja College to communicate-investigate-standardizethe knowledge pertaining to astronomy and allied sciences. Since then, ASDRC was able [...]

Quadruple Transit of Saturn’s Moons Briefing:A life time experience: Never miss it… A great extraordinary thing will take place on Saturn as forecast by scientific community. According to Keith Noll of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, there would be a quadruple transit of Saturn’s moons. He said that Titan, Dione, Mimas, & Enceladus would [...]

“””Hello and welcome to the 51st edition of the Carnival of Space! My name is Ian O’Neill, UK solar physicist and writer for the Universe Today. I am honoured to be hosting the Carnival, so thank you Fraser for letting me loose on seven days-worth of excellent space related news from the growing blogosphere. Astroengine [...]

By National Radio Astronomy Observatory, [RxPG] Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth — star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space — are yielding their secrets to astronomers armed with powerful new research tools, and even better tools soon will be available. Astronomers described three important [...]

Galileo’s birthday: Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564. Neither his parents nor their neighbors in Pisa expected at the time that 436 years later a spacecraft named after him would be on its way to Jupiter, or that a crater on the moon would bear his name, or that more than two hundred [...]

Comet Lulin is with a tail and an anti-tail on January 19, 2009, when Michael Jaeger photographed this image from Austria, using an 8-inch f/2.8 astrographic camera for exposures through LRGB filters totaling 10 minutes. Comet Lulin on February 2nd 2009, at magnitude 6.5 with tail and anti-tail. See the difference between two images. Various [...]