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Solar Eclipse: The Game of Shadow Only, Nothing Serious and Not Rare Too

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  - Raul GoodSUN, Astronomer  10th August 2026.   Have you ever wondered that we live in shadows 365 days a year?   Yes, it's true. It is called "Night." Our Earth's front side is always exposed towards the Sun, so the back side is always dark because of the shadow being cast. Since our Earth rotates 360 degrees, we have day and night varying across different regions.   I am sure that during the summer season, in order to escape the heat, you have either used an umbrella, sat under a tree, or used any other object for shade. During this time, you feel calm and cool because of the shadows cast by the umbrella, the branches of the tree, or other objects. Here, we use shadows to escape the sun's heat in our daily lives. So, it feels completely normal to us. Umbrella shadow and moon's shadow casted by sunlight The Sun, Moon, and Earth — all three of these celestial bodies are constantly moving through our empty space. Whenever they align in a straigh...

प्राकृतिक चन्द्र ग्रहण र पुर्णिमा कार्तिक १२ गते, कार्तिक ११ गते होइन है ...

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 प्राकृतिक चन्द्र ग्रहण र पुर्णिमा कार्तिक १२  गते,  कार्तिक ११ गते होइन है ...

Drunk astronomers sent a letter into space from Earth, but sobered up and did not wait for a response from Altair

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      In the early 1980s, two drunk astronomers from Japan sent a message to the star Altair. Now other scientists from Japan have decided to monitor signals from space in the hope of getting an answer to it. This is reported by The Asahi Shimbun. On August 15, 1983, two Japanese astronomers from the University of Tokyo, Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi drank whiskey, made their way to the Stanford University Telescope and sent a message in the form of 13 drawings to Altair, which is in the constellation of the Eagle about 16.8 light years from Earth. The message, translated into binary code, contained the coordinates of our planet and extensive information about life on Earth, including a graphically executed history of its origin. Having sobered up, astronomers began to wait for an answer, hoping to receive it in 2015. However, Masaki Morimoto died in 2010, and his colleagues’ hopes were not fulfilled. And recently, a team of astronomers led by Shinya Narusava fr...