I was glad to see many items being issued in collaboration with IYA 2009 – the International Year of Astronomy. In Slovenia, there have been a set of six astronomical phone cards, issued to celebrate IYA 2009. These six cards will definitely be a valuable collection of souvenirs, for anyone, who is interested in Astronomy [...]

May 2009 8th May Girl’s Junior Lyceum, St Benedict’s College, Sta Lucia “The Amateur astronomer and his telescope” Mr Ray Pace DVD Eyes on the skies Audiovisual presentations by Mr Leonard Ellul Mercer “Moon Encounter” “Taste of the Universe” 8th May to 5th June Basic Astronomy course (Astronomical Society of Malta) 9th May Launch of [...]

This set of stamps are also dedicated to International Year of Astronomy 2009 { IYA 2009 } and is issued by Italy. In recent times, a good thrend is developing towards the IYA 2009, as many countries are publishing stamps in celebration of IYA 2009. The thrend is especially dominated by Europe, most of whose [...]

The number of stamps, published for IYA 2009 is fast growing at the moment. A lot of countries and states have already published many valuable and beautiful stamps for International Year of Astronomy 2009. However I though of publishing this new set of stamps that I came acr0ss in the blogosphere, despite my previous post [...]

As you know there are many Cornerstone Projects of International Year of Astronomy 2009.The Cosmic Diary Project is bit vivid among them and is contributed by a worldwide community of astronomers, all of whom are competent in the field and their niche. This blog post discusses about them and their respective institutions, collaborating with IYA [...]

I just thought of making available some information on IYA coins, that have been issued by Australia back in 2008, as they have not received some reputation. This post will give you some idea of those coins. In fact two coins were launched by Australian Royal Mint on 7th November 2008, as an effort to [...]