L-Għaqda Maltija tal-Astronomija
The Astronomical Society of Malta
In light of the current situation, we will be holding the AGM online for the first time. All members are invited to participate in this meeting which will be held on Friday the 21th of August 2020 at 6:30pm. Since this meeting will be held online we will provide Members …
The final results from the NameExoWorlds campaign are in! In the case of Malta and Gozo, the Maltese public selected the names Ġgantija for the exoplanet and Sansuna for the star. Both names are associated with the megalithic temples of Ġgantija on the island of Gozo, Malta, a UNESCO World …
Today, astronomers announced that they have at last managed to capture an image of one of the most elusive objects in the universe: a black hole. The image shows a black hole enveloped by a ring of light at the heart of Messier 87, a giant elliptical galaxy in the …
Avid observer and Society member Stephen Brincat has reported his discovery of two new variable stars, both of which are located in the constellation Perseus. The discovery followed weeks of careful observations of the two suspect objects and analysis of the data. Both variables are of the EA (Algol) eclipsing …
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has just made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second. Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed picture yet as it hurtled towards the dwarf planet on Tuesday. The probe was set to grab more images and other data as it …
The Astronomical Society’s Archiving Sub-Committee has been meeting, physically and virtually, during the past year so as to decide on the way forward with respect to the archiving of our members’ observations. Observations can take various forms and the task of the archiving sub-committee has been that of devising a …
(A joint press release by BirdLife Malta and the Astronomical Society of Malta’s Light Pollution Awareness Group) BirdLife Malta has today reported it has been alerted to 11 cases of young Scopoli’s Shearwaters stranded inland by the effects of light pollution over just the past two weeks. The organisation is …
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