Shooting stars in November
November is a month of meteors and shooting stars. During a meteor shower, fragments of a comet, the meteorites, enter the near-Earth atmosphere and burn up as shooting stars. On November 1st, the moon shows its...
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Long night of the planets
Object of the week_2022-44 A long night of the planets This time there are five objects at once, as all five outer planets are currently visible in the night sky. It starts, at dusk, with the ...
Meteorite impact on Mars
Meteorite impact on Mars In January, scientists noticed that the InSight probe (a stationary seismic measurement lander launched in 2018) had registered numerous tremors at the end of December 2021.The months-long analysis by the team from NASA and...
Partial solar eclipse on October 25, 2022
The observatory was open to visitors on October 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to observe the partial solar eclipse. Our member Otmar Becker observed the solar eclipse from his home and shows...