Introduction to astronomical drawing You are enough people that when seeing one of the drawings that in these pages are exposed you are interested in how they have been made, and you even consider trying it. I will start here...

  Can it happen that someday our galaxy, the Milky Way , collides with its biggest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy ? Most likely, yes. The meticulous study of the slight displacements of the stars of M31 in relation to the...

3 June 2012 The extraordinary transit of Venus by the face of the Sun in 2004 was one of the most photographed events in the history of heaven. Both scientific and artistic images came to us in large numbers from...

A few years ago, a more perfect method than parallax was discovered to measure the distances of celestial bodies. It consists of emitting microwaves to space. Microwaves are very short radio waves, like those used in radar. When the waves...

Cumulus, nebulae and galaxies The clusters There are also stars that form groups. In the first rung of the scale of clusters are the globular ones, they are giant clusters of stars that began to appear in the Universe about...

Walk through the sky of the circumpolar boreal region This second tour is centered in part of the constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, which have a lot of interesting objects to observe, as well as the constellations of...

Walk through the sky of Andromeda and Triangulum This walk can be observed from both hemispheres. There are many interesting objects in this area, among which the Andromeda and the Molinillo galaxy stand out. The Andromeda galaxy is the furthest...

Interesting data How many stars can we see The night sky seems to have millions of stars visible. That’s because we live in a galaxy that has hundreds of millions of stars. However, we can not see them with the...

Advances in Astronomy through time   Before the 11th century 32000 BC In the Stone Age man makes incisions in bones to represent the lunar phases, which is possibly the oldest astronomical record. 4000 BC The city of Ur is...