• Fireball meteor exploded 30 km above Sarajevo, Bosnia

    Astronomic Society Sarajevo reported bright fireball bolid which entered the atmosphere with multiple explosions above Bosnian capital Sarajevo early on November 2, 2013.

    The body was recorded as magnitude -9 and was entering our atmosphere at speed of 20 km

  • New flyover video of Red planet's surface

    New compilation video from images taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft was released online on October 28, 2013. This video is compiled from images of nearly 12 500 orbits by the Mars Express, gathered from June 2003 by the High Resolution Stereo

  • Night sky guide for November 2013

    November 3, Hybrid Solar Eclipse. Annular total solar eclipse will sweep over the Atlantic Ocean and the middle of Africa on November 3, 2013. The eclipse will be total only along a narrow path over the Atlantic Ocean and equatorial Africa from

  • Rare hybrid solar eclipse event on November 3, 2013

    Annular total solar eclipse will sweep over the Atlantic Ocean and the middle of Africa on November 3, 2013. The eclipse will be total only along a narrow path over the Atlantic Ocean and equatorial Africa from Gabon to Somalia. Most of Africa, the

  • Sudden outburst of Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR)

    Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) suddenly brightened some 150 times than expected. Althoug it was predicted to be 14th magnitude, it is extremely bright as 8.5 magnitude now. Hidetaka Sato and Seiichi Yoshida measured it brightness on October 20, 2013 as magnitude 8,5. Ernesto

  • Annual Orionid meteor shower peaks tonight

    It's time for annual Orionid meteor shower. The Orionid meteor shower is associated with Comet Halley's debris which strike Earth's atmosphere usually in late October. With Eta Aquarids in early May, Orionids are one of two annual meteor

  • Cometary collisions as source of life on Earth

    Comets contain elements such as water, ammonia, methanol and carbon dioxide that could have supplied the raw materials, in which upon impact on early Earth would have yielded an abundant supply of energy to produce amino acids and jump start life.

    In a research that