ch 8, invites the public to rediscover the work and biographies of 19 women who have played a major role in the development of our current knowledge in astronomy. These women were involved in important discoveries in the history of the discipline, but it was often the men they worked with who rea ...
When is the Night of Stars? The Night of the Stars is a free astronomy event open to everyone. This public event now lasts for three nights, so it is also referred to as Nights of the Stars in plural! This great astronomy celebration is organized every summer in August by national associations suc ...
1- It was created by a philanthropist passionate about astronomy. The Nice Observatory was founded in 1881 on the hill of Mont Gros, a site chosen at the time for the quality of its sky. The city of Nice owes its construction to a private patron: Raphaël-Louis Bischoffsheim. Starting in 1878, the ...
1- What is astrophotography? Astrophotography is a hobby halfway between astronomy and photography. As its name suggests, it involves photographing all kinds of celestial objects: the moon, eclipses, auroras, planets of our solar system and their satellites, galaxies, nebulae, comets, or even sunsp ...
side our solar system, black holes, and a galaxy 13 billion years old. It is thus rightly that NASA called Hubble 'the most significant advance in astronomy since the invention of the telescope by Galileo'. If all goes according to plan, James Webb (named after a former NASA executive) will ta ...
What are the Perseids? Among the different astronomical phenomena that can be admired in the summer sky, one of the most famous is the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids are shooting stars visible from Earth. Each of these luminous phenomena accompanies the entry of an extraterrestrial body or me ...
1- A pulsar is a strange star Among celestial objects, the pulsar is perhaps the strangest form of star. Pulsars belong to the family of neutron stars, the remnants of the gravitational collapse of a massive star at the end of its life, when it explodes into a supernova. They are very dense s ...
tage of the GR10 trail that crosses the Pyrenees from east to west. In summer, the Nordic village Angaka organizes bivouacs under a teepee or a yurt, astronomy evenings as well as a wide range of hikes, on foot, on horseback or even in cani-rando harnessed to a dog! It must be said that the plate ...
