Members Reports

Comets & Interstellar Visitors: Exploring the Dynamic Sky (A Free, Virtual Lecture)

By Donna McCormick posted 12 hours ago
The photo is a Hubble Space telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on 21 July 21 2025, when the comet was 365 million kilometers from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure. On January 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory and co-host Suffolk County Community College will present a free, virtual lecture by Dr. Ariel Graykowski, a research scientist from the SETI Institute, who will talk about comets, ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (2) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 3 days ago
Look for your place carefully if you want to win the game with the Sun . . . #poetry

Ringing in 2026 with the Stars: Sky Watch Party

By Ravi Raja Pothineni posted 4 days ago
​Ringing in 2026 with the Stars: Sky Watch Party at TSWR IIT-LTCD, Gowlidoddi, Gachibowli ​Students and staff at TSWR IIT-LTCD, Gowlidoddi, celebrated the arrival of the New Year with a unique "New Year Sky Watch Party". Held overnight from December 31, 2025, to January 1, 2026, the event provided an educational alternative to traditional celebrations. ​The event saw massive participation, with over 600 students and staff members attending between 10:45 PM and 2:00 PM. Under the guidance of the 'astro' team, participants utilised telescopes to observe celestial marvels, including detailed views of the Moon and Jupiter, making for a memorable and inspiring ...

The Astronomer’s Chair

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 4 days ago
. The Astronomer’s Chair . By Clarence G. Underwood . The Astronomer’s chair sits empty The stars are floating by. No one Is looking through the eyepiece, I wonder why? Perhaps because It is New Year’s Eve and the Astronomer has gone to celebrate. After the stroke of midnight Again the Astronomer will take His place. There is so much to See now, the winter stars do Show. Taurus, Orion and the Pleiades, they are on display you Know! Nebula and clusters there Is so much to see. As I start the New Year, another year older I Will be! #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (1, Introduction) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 7 days ago
December 12-16, 2025, Runcu Stone, Romania. An event with SARM leadership, with young lovers of the sky, with activity reports, plans, free discussions, astronomical presentations, sky observations, an astropoetry show and... true light! . . . . . #poetry

BLACK HOLES AND DARK PITS By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 14 days ago
Since the 18th century, John Michell and Pierre Simon de Laplace have drawn our attention to what today we call black holes. . The serious gravity problem is that from the dark pits of the Earth we can still escape sometimes, but we can never do it from the black holes of the Cosmos. #poetry

TWO KINGDOMS

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 15 days ago
Image details: The Very Large Telescope snaps a stellar nursery and celebrates fifteen years of operations Credit: ESO https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1322a/ T here are two wonderful kingdoms basically so contradicted and yet in some way similar. One is hidden in the depths of Earth's water regions, while the other stretches high above in the unbounded infinity. These two kingdoms were sparking for centuries our curiosity, imagination and encouraged us to make bold steps paving the way towards new discoveries. Thanks to them the treasury of knowledge is continuously filled up. Today, as well. And yet we don't know everything, ...

Chasing the Geminids: Dark Nights Under the Mulugu Sky

By Ravi Raja Pothineni posted 16 days ago
​As an astronomer, I have always believed that the most important instrument we have isn't the telescope—it’s the location. ​This week, we, the ASTRO Team, travelled to the remote areas of the Mulugu district—Govindaraopet, Pasra, and Narlapur—to witness the Geminids Meteor Shower, often referred to as the "King of Meteor Showers." Leaving the city lights behind, we found something that is becoming dangerously rare: true darkness. ​Under the pristine skies of Pasra, the universe didn't just appear; it performed. 🌌​We watched Orion the Hunter dominate the winter sky, its nebula glowing faintly even to the naked eye. 🌌​We saw the Seven ...

NOVEMBER 24, 2025 Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 20 days ago
I saw the Sun down in the morning from my planet and then in the evening I asked myself: Why not a satellite too, like the Moon? Why not another planet too, like Saturn? Why not another star too, like Deneb? . . . . #poetry

United Nations Inventors

By Dr.Morteza Chaman Ara posted 20 days ago
United Nations Inventors

AN ASTROPOETRY DIALOGUE WITH ADRIAN SIMA By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 21 days ago
Mathematics teacher at a university, physics teacher at a high school, priest and former laureate of the National Grand Prize for Astropoetry in Romania, Adrian Sima makes a spectacular comeback. . THE SHORTEST SPECIES OF ASTROPOETRY By Adrian Sima . LIGHT – mysterious substance in the ink sky - real spark, with which to write the shortest astropoetry - . the only Verse in the Uni-verse. . ASTRO-HAIKU By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . Just stellar interpretations of people’s lives – astropoetry #poetry

AT A SARM CAMP Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 26 days ago
At SARM's summer astronomical events there is a tradition of a campfire, around which the participants chat and listen to astrofolk music. . At the same time, some look at deep sky objects on computer screens (for example, a galaxy), and others look at near sky objects with the naked eye (for example, the Moon). . . . #poetry

NOVEMBER SUN By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 27 days ago
NEAR THE CHILDREN’S OBSERVATORY . In a nice park, after so many rainy days, nature still resists . . . . . #poetry

Fallen Stars

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 27 days ago
Fallen Stars By Clarence G. Underwood Some say that stars from heaven do fall! We look up on a clear night and at that Moment we see a sight. The heavens seem To fall to the earth. A new stone has been Given birth. A meteorite is what it’s called. It wasn’t really a star at all. But some have Claimed they saw a fire in the sky and believe A fallen star would probably come to earth That way! Meteors are really just dust and Stones in the sky. Perhaps once in a while They may be a rock which falls from up high. A piece of a comet or some other celestial Debris. Watch out below we don’t want it to Hit you or me! But we can collect ...

Hecate, the snake woman on the moon?

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 28 days ago
. The First Telescope! . Hecate, the snake woman on the moon? . By Clarence G. Underwood . As you can see from the picture above, there appears there a woman with a snake. The 8th century BC Greeks worshipped Hecate. A snake woman which originated in Caria. The Greeks and Carians serviced Egyptian Pharaohs in many fights. Perhaps this is where some of the enhanced cult information originated for the Greeks! Many cultures spoke of and worshipped a woman in the moon. The Carians shared a frontier with the Greeks. In the 19th century Sir Austen H. Layard found the Nimrud Lens during an excavation of some Assyrian ruins! Professor ...

BLUE SATURN Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 28 days ago
On the evening of November 24, 2025, among the blocks in my Bucharest neighborhood. . Saturn - I said - I knew you yellow to gray, why do I see you now disguised in light blue? . I am not disguised - he answered me - but some of your fellow earthlings made me up with electric lights. . #poetry

READINESS

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 29 days ago
Image details: The double firing burst (artist's impression) Credit: ESO https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0828a/ ––– |READINESS| W e have to be ready that someday our ideas about the cosmos will collapse unexpectedly Being still focused on wars here, we're living in a fool's paradise what happens there… Undoubtedly, thanks to the state-of-the-art technology * , we have seen more than earlier. Intriguing riddles remain, however That's because the Universe, after all, conceals surprisingly many of them, keeping the ability to debunk paradigms Soon, we'll have to handle somehow with ...

STORIES FROM TARGOVISTE ASTRO-SPACE-FEST 2025 (PS) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 11-28-2025
C/2025 A6 (LEMMON) . Photo 1 (2025-10-20, Runcu Stone) by George Tanase Astro-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe Photo 2 (2025-10-24, Runcu Stone) by Valentin Grigore . . Only a simple comet... and so much upliftment of the soul! . #poetry

MODELED ON THOMAS DIGGES (1546-1595) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 11-27-2025
I heard a lot about Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo and Kepler, but I have heard too little about Thomas Digges, who considered that the Sun is the center of an infinite Universe. . Maybe if we look at the world subjectively he was right… #poetry