For those with an ‘astrological‘ leaning, the Sun will be passing from the constellation of Cancer to Leo on August 11th, where it will remain for the remainder of the month. However, since the Sun […]
The Perseids is an unusually rich meteor shower and a sky watchers favorite, not just for the abundance of its meteors but because unlike other showers which can exceed it in maximum output, such as […]
Also known as the Öpik–Oort cloud, after Dutch and Estonian astronomers Jan Oort and Ernst Öpik, the cloud is a spherical swarm of planetesimals composed mainly of various ices (notably water, methane, and ammonia ice) […]
Also known as the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, this is a region of space that falls in an area outside of the orbits of the major planets but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun, thus […]
In general terms, the asteroid belt is defined as the relatively thickly populated region approximately between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Also known as the main-asteroid belt to differentiate between it and […]
There are good reasons why the Pleiades, or M45, as it is also known has played such a prominent part in the astronomical traditions of virtually all the peoples of Earth since before the dawn […]
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