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UNBELIEVABLE

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 17 hours ago
Image details: Artist’s impression of a rogue planet in Rho Ophiuchi Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2120a/ ––– |UNBELIEVABLE| I t's just unbelievable what may be far beyond yet uncharted space… We strive to gather as much knowledge we can, sometimes without success It's just unbelievable that one day we'll be capable for interstellar travels However, the significant stage has been already achieved by much advanced ETCs * It's just unbelievable that we haven't officially established ** radio contact so far… Nevertheless, ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (6) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 3 days ago
A mini-anthology with other astropoems by SARM . RETURN TO THE SKY By Valentin Grigore . Light pollution = human stupidity, blocking the connection between humans and stars, the attitude towards Space is reversed. . The people who look at the stars bring a plus to society. . If we return to ourselves, we return to the sky. . PHOTON By Razvan Andrei . A photon does not feel time, he is contemporary with the creation of the Universe and with you! . WITH A SATELLITE-SMILE By Alec Bartos . Comet, you had all kinds of tails, you travelled, I followed you and wipe my tear with a satellite-smile. ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (5) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 3 days ago
-A specialized astropoetry mini-anthology by SARM . ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT Astro-photo-poem by Gelu Claudiu Radu . Waiting for arrows, the Orion Nebula kisses the Twins. . . ASTRO-HAIKU By Iuian Olaru . Geminids laughing - I haven't seen them like this in a long time . GEMINIDS 2025 Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore . The strongest and most consistent meteor shower of the year... During the day we learn about meteors and meteor showers, and at night, putting into practice what we learned, caused by the gusts of the Geminids (including many shiny fireballs), we admire their flight of light. ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (4) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 5 days ago
Main stage: Jupiter with the procession of winter stars. . Delighted spectators: the Moon and Spica. . Predictions and bets: How far will the Geminids breach the boundaries of the radiant constellation? . . . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (3) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 6 days ago
Sunset at Runcu Stone - a gorgeous contamination of beauty . . . #poetry

Comets & Interstellar Visitors: Exploring the Dynamic Sky (A Free, Virtual Lecture)

By Donna McCormick posted 6 days ago
The photo is a Hubble Space telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on 21 July 21 2025, when the comet was 365 million kilometers from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure. On January 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory and co-host Suffolk County Community College will present a free, virtual lecture by Dr. Ariel Graykowski, a research scientist from the SETI Institute, who will talk about comets, ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (2) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 9 days ago
Look for your place carefully if you want to win the game with the Sun . . . #poetry

Ringing in 2026 with the Stars: Sky Watch Party

By Ravi Raja Pothineni posted 10 days ago
​Ringing in 2026 with the Stars: Sky Watch Party at TSWR IIT-LTCD, Gowlidoddi, Gachibowli ​Students and staff at TSWR IIT-LTCD, Gowlidoddi, celebrated the arrival of the New Year with a unique "New Year Sky Watch Party". Held overnight from December 31, 2025, to January 1, 2026, the event provided an educational alternative to traditional celebrations. ​The event saw massive participation, with over 600 students and staff members attending between 10:45 PM and 2:00 PM. Under the guidance of the 'astro' team, participants utilised telescopes to observe celestial marvels, including detailed views of the Moon and Jupiter, making for a memorable and inspiring ...

The Astronomer’s Chair

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 10 days ago
. The Astronomer’s Chair . By Clarence G. Underwood . The Astronomer’s chair sits empty The stars are floating by. No one Is looking through the eyepiece, I wonder why? Perhaps because It is New Year’s Eve and the Astronomer has gone to celebrate. After the stroke of midnight Again the Astronomer will take His place. There is so much to See now, the winter stars do Show. Taurus, Orion and the Pleiades, they are on display you Know! Nebula and clusters there Is so much to see. As I start the New Year, another year older I Will be! #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (1, Introduction) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12 days ago
December 12-16, 2025, Runcu Stone, Romania. An event with SARM leadership, with young lovers of the sky, with activity reports, plans, free discussions, astronomical presentations, sky observations, an astropoetry show and... true light! . . . . . #poetry

BLACK HOLES AND DARK PITS By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 19 days ago
Since the 18th century, John Michell and Pierre Simon de Laplace have drawn our attention to what today we call black holes. . The serious gravity problem is that from the dark pits of the Earth we can still escape sometimes, but we can never do it from the black holes of the Cosmos. #poetry

TWO KINGDOMS

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 21 days ago
Image details: The Very Large Telescope snaps a stellar nursery and celebrates fifteen years of operations Credit: ESO https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1322a/ T here are two wonderful kingdoms basically so contradicted and yet in some way similar. One is hidden in the depths of Earth's water regions, while the other stretches high above in the unbounded infinity. These two kingdoms were sparking for centuries our curiosity, imagination and encouraged us to make bold steps paving the way towards new discoveries. Thanks to them the treasury of knowledge is continuously filled up. Today, as well. And yet we don't know everything, ...

Chasing the Geminids: Dark Nights Under the Mulugu Sky

By Ravi Raja Pothineni posted 22 days ago
​As an astronomer, I have always believed that the most important instrument we have isn't the telescope—it’s the location. ​This week, we, the ASTRO Team, travelled to the remote areas of the Mulugu district—Govindaraopet, Pasra, and Narlapur—to witness the Geminids Meteor Shower, often referred to as the "King of Meteor Showers." Leaving the city lights behind, we found something that is becoming dangerously rare: true darkness. ​Under the pristine skies of Pasra, the universe didn't just appear; it performed. 🌌​We watched Orion the Hunter dominate the winter sky, its nebula glowing faintly even to the naked eye. 🌌​We saw the Seven ...

NOVEMBER 24, 2025 Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 26 days ago
I saw the Sun down in the morning from my planet and then in the evening I asked myself: Why not a satellite too, like the Moon? Why not another planet too, like Saturn? Why not another star too, like Deneb? . . . . #poetry

United Nations Inventors

By Dr.Morteza Chaman Ara posted 26 days ago
United Nations Inventors

AN ASTROPOETRY DIALOGUE WITH ADRIAN SIMA By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 27 days ago
Mathematics teacher at a university, physics teacher at a high school, priest and former laureate of the National Grand Prize for Astropoetry in Romania, Adrian Sima makes a spectacular comeback. . THE SHORTEST SPECIES OF ASTROPOETRY By Adrian Sima . LIGHT – mysterious substance in the ink sky - real spark, with which to write the shortest astropoetry - . the only Verse in the Uni-verse. . ASTRO-HAIKU By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . Just stellar interpretations of people’s lives – astropoetry #poetry

AT A SARM CAMP Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12-10-2025
At SARM's summer astronomical events there is a tradition of a campfire, around which the participants chat and listen to astrofolk music. . At the same time, some look at deep sky objects on computer screens (for example, a galaxy), and others look at near sky objects with the naked eye (for example, the Moon). . . . #poetry

NOVEMBER SUN By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12-09-2025
NEAR THE CHILDREN’S OBSERVATORY . In a nice park, after so many rainy days, nature still resists . . . . . #poetry