Astronomy For You

An interesting event for 2016 is Mercury Transit on May 9th 2016 from 11:12 until 18:42 (UTC time) which will be visible from almost anywh...

The Winter Hexagon is the common name for a well known pattern of stars (the proper term is asterism) in a shape of a big hexagon which is...

While this is an astronomy blog, from time to time I write book reviews: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep : What a strange name fo...

It is a time for another carnival of space. Did you manage to see all planets together in the dawn sky? After several rainy and cloudy mor...