For the December 26th annular solar eclipse, AWB’s long-time supporter Vivian White trekked to southern India to the city of Mysore, taking with her a suitcase full of our recycled eclipse glasses collected by the American public after the August 2017 total eclipse. Read about her adventure

Our Telescopes To Tanzania project is coming together with assembly & installation of the new telescope for the nation's new astronomical observatory and education centre. Check out daily updates from Kai Staats, who is on site, as the dream finally comes true!

In Nigeria, there are fewer science learning opportunities than in many other countries. Gender inequality, due to religious and communal customs, can have grave consequences; only 20% of women in northern Nigeria are literate.

Olayinka Fagbemiro is the Astronomers Without Borders National Coordinator for Nigeria. She and her team organize astronomy camps that use space and astronomy to inspire girls and to increase their interest in science and technology. Olayinka and her team reach about 100 girls at each camp.

by Heena Bhatia

A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee - the closest that the Moon comes to Earth in its elliptic orbit - resulting in a slightly larger than usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth. The world witnessed 3 Supermoons currently:

By: Ger Cawdell

moonrise-
the quiescence of birdsong
in twilight