If you’ve ever peeked your head out at night at the countryside and gazed at the stars, I bet you could feel the awe that the night sky provokes.
Like many other hobbie or professional astronomers, I feel that observing the sky raises deep philosophical questions. I’m constantly meeting people […] Continue Reading…

Anyone who has gazed at the sky has asked himself/herself what that little tight knot of stars was in during the winter. This articles will be focusing on two things:

What are the Pleiades? What are there story?
How to get a better look at them.

What are the Pleiades? What are […] Continue Reading…

The Merope Nebula, sometimes called Tempel’s Nebula or NGC 1435 by astronomers, is a reflection nebula located in the famous Pleiades Cluster. Discovered on October 19, 1859 by astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, some say that it might be a Supernova Remnant. The hot and young pleiade star Merope (a few […] Continue Reading…

I am sorry for not having posted new content for ages, I will look up into keeping the site up-to-date because astronomy is an extremely fast developping branch of science today. I have been very busy during the last 3 months but I will now resume posting as often […] Continue Reading…

IC 1396 (Index Catalog), also known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula, is an extremely large emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus, spanning on a region over 6 times the size of te full moon! IC 1396 is a stellar nursery 2 400 light years away from Earth, and the […] Continue Reading…

It took me two full hours to understand the concept of equatorial mount when I first started off as an amateur astronomer. First of all, the diagrams which I had where really terrible, and only mixed things up even more than the text only of the book I had. […] Continue Reading…

Hissss. The Snake Nebula, scientifically known as Barnard 72, is an amazing 650 light-year distant dark nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus. Dark Nebula are a certain type of nebula that block the light from the stars behind them. Other famous dark nebula include the Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33 in […] Continue Reading…

Esa’s cool project Rosetta will be landing on a comet and orbiting it in 2014. The comet, called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (these Russians…) will be gradually getting closer to the sun. The spacecraft will study the composition of the comet’s tail, and will land a little module called Philae on the […] Continue Reading…