Astronomy For You

Hello all and welcome to a new CoS. Something always happen in space and here you will find what happened in the last week. We will star...

Mercury Transit is a rare occasion on which Mercury pass in front of the sun, a tiny tiny "eclipse". My setup was like this. I ...

Mercury is an elusive planet. It is small, dim and most of the time to close to the sun to be seen at all. Yet , during its greatest elong...

Astronomers don't like haze. It is bad. But even haze has it benefits and sometimes you can clearly see the sun through the haze witho...