Depending on what you perceive to be science, astronomy might be the oldest science on earth – since ages people have been looking up to the sky and trying to make sense of it. Since those beginnings great achievements have been made and nowadays we know a lot about the physical correlations. The rising speed of technological progress in modern times and the possibilities of modern personal computers have brought the science into our homes.

Today we know a lot about the universe and space and it’s objects (for example Triple Eclipses).

But that is not all – it has become a lot easier to learn about astronomy for everybody. You don’t have to be a top expert scientest to have the possibility of watching the stars in close up images. There are a lot of very good computer programs and relatively cheap beginners telescopes that enable everyone to deepen the knowledge about our universe (e.g. Microsoft World Wide Telescope. Many of tose resources are very affordable and quite a lot software products are even available for free.

But even if you are not interested in the science behind it, there is so much beauty in some of those pictures. The structures and colors seen on those pictures fascinate almost anyone who is confronted with them for the first time. Some of the best photographs can be found here: Astronomy Picture of the day

Discover the the miscellaneousness of astronomy, which is both – hobby and science. It can give you the joy of watching pictures almost like art or it can give your brain the task to apply math with all tricks the science supplies.

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