March 3: A Waning Gibbous Moon (18.23 days old) is just 4 degrees SE of Spica at 11:30pm in east.
March 7: The Moon will be just 1 degree from Antares at 6:00am.
March 7: Last Quarter Moon.
March 13-14: Messier Marathon. Locating all the 110 Messier objects from the evening of 14th to the morning of 14th [...]

As part of its monthly public lecture series and the National Science day celebrations, Amateur astronomers Organization is conducting an invited public lecture on astronomy in collaboration with Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM). Shri. R.Ramachandran (Member, British astronomy association) will be [...]

AASTRO Alleppy District Chapter will be launched on feb 28th at Alleppy Beach

Alleppy,Kerala : AASTRO Alappuzha chapter formed here will have its inaugural programme – a mega sky watching event on Feb 28th,Sunday at Alappuzha Beach on the occasion of National Science day.AASTRO President prof.k.Pappootty will launch the district fraction [...]

The idea of “Men from Mars” has been with us for more than a century now, thanks to writers like H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And movies like “Mars Attacks” and “War of the Worlds” are good fun. But what’s the real story of the search for life on Mars?

In the 17th [...]

Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) , founder of modern astronomy.

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.Nicolaus Copernicus is the Latin version of the famous astronomer’s name [...]

Four centuries ago, on February 16, 1600, the Roman Catholic Church executed Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher and scientist, for the crime of heresy. He was taken from his cell in the early hours of the morning to the Piazza dei Fiori in Rome and burnt alive at the stake. To the last, the Church authorities [...]

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564. Neither his parents nor their neighbors in Pisa expected at the time that 436 years later a spacecraft named after him would be on its way to Jupiter, or that a crater on the [...]