Cosmos Community
Welcome to the Cosmos Community Portal – a free, social networking site for anyone interested in astronomy and space issues. This is the gateway to the
- Personal Portals of amateur astronomers, astrophotographers, telescope builders and space enthusiasts of all sorts.
- Community Portals of astronomy clubs, societies, resource and service organization
Both kinds of portals can be private and visible only to members, or public and visible to anyone. That's up to the portal owner and administrators. If you want to become a member of any portal or want to start your own portal, you have to first register here. It's free!
Once you are registered you can even build your own portal. Just click on the CREATE A PORTAL button on any page. That's free too (with ads appearing on your portal) or you can subscribe for $8/month and forget about pesky ads. You can post articles, blogs, photo galleries, events, newsletters, and more. Join this portal or start a portal of your own and become part of this collaboration. Visit our featured portals.
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Featured Article
AAVSO History: Amateur observers of variable stars in the United States from 1875 to 1910
For 35 years before the formation of the AAVSO, independent amateur variable star astronomers in the United States were making significant contributions to the field. The most notable of these...
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Featured Blog Post
Breaking Bohr's Principle
This concerns physics, not astronomy, but since it challenges a foundational principle of quantum mechanics, I thought it well worth a blog. Several years ago a physicist with, so far as I know, no...
Featured Resource
NASA JPL Night Sky Network
Check out the big events the Night Sky Network affiliated amateur astronomer clubs around the United States have made. These clubs making a huge impact to bring you a better understanding of astronomy and the science and inspiration of NASA's...
Latest News
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
NASA–STScI (Jan. 8, 2009) – A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space...
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News Articles
Caltech, Pasadena, CA (Dec. 16, 2008) The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of w...
NASA-JPL, Pasadena (Dec. 29, 2008) About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that ...
Space Telescope Science Inst. (Jan. 6, 2009) Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but la...
NASA-STScI (Jan. 6, 2009) This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveal...
NASA Science News (Jan. 8, 2009): When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Co...
Paris (Dec. 12, 2008) A team of German and American astronomers present far-ultraviolet observations of ...
NASA GSFC (Dec. 6, 2008) NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite rocketed into space in 2004 on a missio...
Events
The annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific will be held from May 31 - June...
Resources
The ADC primarily serves the professional astronomy community. However, amateurs can find many of the ADC's ca...
It's no surprise that students, writers of fiction and nonscientists in general are so interested in this part...
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) is a worldwide, nonprofit, scientific and educatio...
The Astronomical League mission is: To promote the science of Astronomy. To foster observational and computat...
Founded in 1868, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is Canada's leadingastronomy organizationbringing to...
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A.L.P.O.) was founded by Walter H. Haas in 1947, and incorpo...
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