Well, well, well, it’s been more than three years that I hadn’t written a blogpost over here, or anywhere else for that matter I think. The last post I made was about the Rosetta space mission, at the occasion of its final moment as it soft-landed on the comet 67P. That was late September 2016.…
I guess the tittle explains it all. I assume you arrived at this page after having watched the recent video by kurzgesagt on youtube. If you’ve not watched it already, I invite you to have a look at the video below. Now that you’ve watched the video I assume that you’ve gathered some background in…
Ce n’est pas tous les jours que l’on voit des arcs-en-ciel dans la vie quotidienne. Il faut avoir la bonne combinaison de pluie et de soleil. Ceci dit, c’est évident que voir un double arc-en-ciel est un phénomène qui est extrêmement rare, personnellement je n’en avais jamais vu. Donc aujourd’hui je vais vous présenter le…
In fact it’s been a week since my previous blog post. We’ve had the total lunar eclipse last Wednesday and observations from Hanoi were not so much disappointing, despite the inherent urban light pollution. In my case I was observing from the rooftop of our house in Dao Tan, Hanoi located close to the Lotte…
Eclipse is in the air ! In my life as an amateur astronomer I’ve had a lot of fun with solar eclipses, but now it’s the time to mingle a bit with lunar eclipses. As I blog this entry from Hanoi, both penumbral and partial phases of today’s total lunar eclipse have already started. But…
Today I have the following news to publish as the World Space Week 2014 kicks off worldwide. It’s not often that someone from Sri Lanka gets to name an asteroid. It’s indeed remarkable when it’s a teenager. Here it goes….. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In an international campaign to name an asteroid, Chanaka Perera (17) from Sri Lanka,…
I know that my blogging has undergone a significant hiatus lately, specially during the last year or so, as opposed to the period when I used to blog at IYA2009 SRI LANKA during IYA2009 and Beyond IYA2009. Well, that’s a different story though, as I was not so busy as I’ve been during the past 11 months,…