This week-end I had the opportunity to look at the sky at night. I discovered with great joy that the Orion Constellation (left) is right in front of my window at midnight. By using Stellarium, a great freeware displaying exactly the sky one has in front of him/her, I discovered Sirius, Betelgeuse, the Pleiades star …
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This week-end was held in Slovenia the seventh European Symposium for the protection of the night sky. This is the occasion to have a look at the lightning of our cities at night. As more lights mean more greenhouse gases emissions, we will have to reduce the amount of lightning to fight climate change. The …
This month’s astronomy article is on yesterday’s APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) by the NASA. It features one of the most famous constellations, Cygnus. The star on the top of the image is Deneb, the brightest of this area and one of the three that constitutes the Summer Triangle. The full image is as …
The Astronomy Picture of the Day by the NASA is my daily meeting with the sky, its billions stars, galaxies and other nebulae. Most of the time, the images are just great. Today’s photo features the Tarantula Nebula and is really jaw-breaking. It was taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located in Chile. You …
As an astronomy enthusiast, I have a daily look since May at the APOD, the astronomy picture of the day from the NASA. On July 2nd, this page proposed a 30-second amazing and stunning video based on various photos of the Pelican Nebula, also referred to as IC 5070 by the specialists. If you are …
The book I will talk about this month was in my shopping list for some time and tackles astronomy in a very interesting way. I was mesmerized by the photos proposed.
This week, an exceptional event happened in Astronomy and I am creating a new category of articles for the occasion. If you had a look at my resume, you know that I am quite interested by this noble science, and indeed today’s article is related to that.
Every month I will present here cultural products (video, book, DVD, album… ) that I truly enjoyed in the past month. This will be a break from our sustainable development topics. To begin this section, I will talk to you about a video seen on the Internet and a book. Firstly, the video. Thanks to …
