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On a beautiful cloudless night, what’s more magnificent than the myriad of stars populating the celestial sphere. Constellations are the easiest...Read more
A total eclipse of the sun lasts only a few minutes. Now imagine being able to observe an eclipse for 74 minutes! That’s what the members of a...Read more
Astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project have revealed the first picture of the black hole located at the center of our...Read more
In September 2016 the European spacecraft Rosetta touched down softly on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury for short), crowning a...Read more
I’d like to take advantage of this blog entry to pay tribute to a great lady of astronomy, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, who left us in August 2021. Even...Read more
The Pole Star is one of the best known stars, but it also holds its share of mysteries: is it brighter than the other stars? Is it the Shepherd’s...Read more
Two years after the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the Soviets wrote another page in the history of aerospace by sending the first woman into orbit. In June...Read more
“I come from the cosmos.” These are the words that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is said to have spoken to a farmer and her daughter who were frightened by...Read more
Qui est Charles Messier? Charles Messier is a name well known to amateur astronomers, he being the creator of a catalogue of astronomical objects...Read more
On November 11, 2019, we’ll be witness to a rare phenomenon: the transit of the planet Mercury in front of the Sun. The planet Mercury’s orbit is...Read more