How to Make a Star Map – for Free!
Do you like custom star maps to commemorate a special event in your life? Feeling crafty and have some spare time? Here's a 6 step guide about how to make your own star map at home - for free.…
Cosmic Creation
A magical moment of my pregnancy was creating the art installation Cosmic Creation. As my ideas developed, I decided to make a “blanket of stars” out of the pregnant belly cast.…
Where do comets come from?
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.…
What is Astrobiology?
However, the study of astronomy is now not merely confined to the observation of stars and other heavenly bodies.…
What are the Properties of Light?
Without darkness there is no light, or so they say. A cliché we’ve all surely heard countless times without giving it as much as a second thought.…
What are asteroids made of?
Asteroids are the solid, rocky and irregular bodies remnants of the protoplanetary disk of dust and gas that formed around the Sun over 4.6 billion years ago.…
What are active galaxies?
In this article, Under Lucky Stars are going to focus on one specific kind: the active galaxies.…
Our New Astronaut Design
For millennia humankind have gazed into the night sky wondering about the stars. The Greeks and the Babylonians identified and named constellations and with the advent of the telescope it was possible to Chronicle previously indistinguishable constellations. More recently technological progress has enabled humans to get even closer to the…
Best binoculars for stargazing
A night of stargazing can be an experience just out of this world; and there is not a better way of doing that than with a good pair of stargazing binoculars.…
What is Archaeoastronomy?
We’re going to delve into a new concept encompassing all of these issues: archaeoastronomy. What is archaeoastronomy and what does this strange word mean?…