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SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (8) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted yesterday

A mini-anthology of SARM with teachers in astronomy and astropoetry . METEORS By Valentin Grigore (founder of the modern school of meteors in Romania) . Drops of light from the Universe achieve their goal only if they vibrate within us. . ESCAPE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM (OR BECAUSE OF POLLUTION) By Dan Mitrut (teacher, former astronomy educator in SARM camps) . Only the shadow of an urban hermit, perched on a skyscraper, with the celestial eye open indecent, watched gods, heroes and kings rowing in the sky like galley slaves . soon we won’t even know what 3I/ATLAS was! . PHAETON By Tit Tihon (math ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (7) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 3 days ago

A specialized youth mini-anthology of SARM . Oh young stars and always the same classical duty: to give more light! (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . THE STORIES OF LIGHT By Anastasia Sima (13 years old) . The Sun goes down And the stars appear Weaving in the dark Immortal stories that rise Like astral stoves. . WAITING FOR GEMINIDS By Stefan Cristache (high school student) . The old springs have dried up The rain of heavenly sands. The starry darkness cries Without bodily needs. . MOON\ By Sofia Birliba (high school student) . In the mist of night we lie, a pearly eye pierces the gaze like a stained ...

Ursa Major

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 4 days ago

Ursa Major . . Ursa Major . Ursa Major has a well Known asterism. It goes By several different titles. The Big Bear also known as The Big Dipper and Charles’ Wane, carries with it many Pictures which aren’t the Same! The Indians saw a Bear, while the Settlers saw A water dipper. The English Saw a wagon. Each had a Perspective based on their Daily life experiences. Just Goes to show how we are Today. We can all look at the Same thing and have some Different things about it to say! #poetry

Jupiter in the Sky

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 4 days ago

Jupiter in the Sky Jupiter in the Sky! By Clarence G. Underwood Four moons stand out and say I’m here! With symmetry I could see them clear. Jupiter was split in half I’d say, with two Moons on each side it looked like a ballet. Perhaps it’s a Battleship with two Destroyers On each side. Ready for battle from which One Comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 couldn’t Hide. The biggest planet in our solar system You know. It protects the Earth from comets And so, it may hurl them into outer space or Perturb their orbits. And by God’s Grace, Protects the human race. Either way it's like a Traffic Cop, that brings dangerous ...

UNBELIEVABLE

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 4 days ago

Image details: Artist’s impression of a rogue planet in Rho Ophiuchi Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2120a/ ––– |UNBELIEVABLE| I t's just unbelievable what may be far beyond yet uncharted space… We strive to gather as much knowledge we can, sometimes without success It's just unbelievable that one day we'll be capable for interstellar travels However, the significant stage has been already achieved by much advanced ETCs * It's just unbelievable that we haven't officially established ** radio contact so far… Nevertheless, ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (6) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 7 days ago

A mini-anthology with other astropoems by SARM . RETURN TO THE SKY By Valentin Grigore . Light pollution = human stupidity, blocking the connection between humans and stars, the attitude towards Space is reversed. . The people who look at the stars bring a plus to society. . If we return to ourselves, we return to the sky. . PHOTON By Razvan Andrei . A photon does not feel time, he is contemporary with the creation of the Universe and with you! . WITH A SATELLITE-SMILE By Alec Bartos . Comet, you had all kinds of tails, you travelled, I followed you and wipe my tear with a satellite-smile. ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (5) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 8 days ago

-A specialized astropoetry mini-anthology by SARM . ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT Astro-photo-poem by Gelu Claudiu Radu . Waiting for arrows, the Orion Nebula kisses the Twins. . . ASTRO-HAIKU By Iuian Olaru . Geminids laughing - I haven't seen them like this in a long time . GEMINIDS 2025 Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore . The strongest and most consistent meteor shower of the year... During the day we learn about meteors and meteor showers, and at night, putting into practice what we learned, caused by the gusts of the Geminids (including many shiny fireballs), we admire their flight of light. ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (4) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 9 days ago

Main stage: Jupiter with the procession of winter stars. . Delighted spectators: the Moon and Spica. . Predictions and bets: How far will the Geminids breach the boundaries of the radiant constellation? . . . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (3) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 10 days ago

Sunset at Runcu Stone - a gorgeous contamination of beauty . . . #poetry

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

By Donna McCormick posted 10 days 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 13 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 14 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 14 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 17 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 24 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 25 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 26 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 30 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 30 days ago

United Nations Inventors