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This poem was written from Pluto's perspective. Apparently, it had been a secret admirer of the Sun for untold millions of years, and, as coincidence would have it, just when enough courage had been mustered to declare this love...

[Apologies to Mike Brown...Editor]

Global Astronomy Month 2013 features for the first time a program of art and astronomy, including live film screenings, live presentations by artists on their work, space food recipes and an AstroArt panel. GAM AstroArt aims at bringing together art, astronomy and space exploration, opening up discussions and possibilities for new collaborations in these fields.

The live film screening program includes:

• 'Overview' by Planet Collective
• 'Serene Universe' by Maarten Roos
• 'No Gravity'...

It has been nearly a year since Thilina Heenatigala, the AWB communication manager, and I started talking about the possibility of having an ongoing art program in collaboration with Astronomers without Borders. Meeting Astronomers without Borders in March 2011 was for me already a life changing experience, in fact for the first time during Global Astronomy Month 2011, my art project OPTICKS was presented as a live event for the international AWB community. People from all around the...

In late 1964, two missions were launched by NASA with destination Mars! They were Mariner 3 and Mariner 4. Both of them were sent to flyby the Red Planet and take the first pictures and scientific observations, transmitting to Earth precious information about interplanetary space and Mars. At that point in history no one had ever seen how Mars looked like. There was a lot of speculation and with earth telescopes it was possible to see that Mars had an atmosphere and changes in color and...

On Aug.5, 2012 NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars to begin a two-year science on Mars at Gale Crater, near the Martian equator. There are features there that were formed by water long ago, so it is a good place to explore for ancient signs of life. Curiosity is filled with complex instruments to study Mars’ surface and atmosphere. But Curiosity also carries a simple experiment for schoolkids on Earth: a sundial to watch. In the same way a sundial is used on Earth, this martian...