''Vasiona'' ({{langx, sr, Васиона - ''Universe'') is a magazine for

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astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...

published by the

Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković () is an astronomical society in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1934 by a group of students, it is the oldest one in the Balkans. Initially having only several members, today it gathers more than 700 astrono ...

. It is being published four times per year. Every number contains news about astronomy and news about events in the society. It is published for more than half a century and is the oldest magazine for popularization of

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. It is the only public source of astronomical

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in Serbia. Magazine articles can roughly be divided into works, news and others. The articles are mostly written for the highschool level, although there are those for the higher level, meant for the smaller circle of readers.

History

The first two issues of the magazine have been printed in the second half of 1953. The magazine was started by the Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković and Astronautical Society of the Aeronautical union of Yugoslavia, as a magazine for astronomy and

astronautics Astronautics (or cosmonautics) is the practice of sending spacecraft beyond atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science is its overarching field. The term ''astronautics' ...

. For the Astronomical Society, Vasiona was the continuation of work on the magazine

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, which was published before

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Nenad Đ. Janković, the last editor of Saturn, was also the first editor of Vasiona. Cooperation with the "astronauticists" was very successful until 1962 when they have stopped financing the magazine, and so Vasiona had to reduce its format. In the 1970s the number of astronautical articles reduced so much that since 1980 Vasiona is purely astronomical magazine.

Editors

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of ''Vasiona'' were: # Nenad Đ. Janković, 1953-1972, # Pero M. Đurković, 1973 & 1974, # prof. dr Jelena Milogradov-Turin, 1975-1982, # prof. dr Branislav Ševarlić, 1983 & 1984, # dr Milan S. Dimitrijević, 1985-2005, #

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, 2005 & 2006, # dr

Vladan Čelebonović , nickname = , variant forms = Vladin, Vladunfemale form Vladana, Vladanka , related names = , seealso = Vlada, Vlado, Vlade, Vladko, Vladoje, Vladeta , name day = , derived = , wikt = Vladan (, sr-Cyrl, Влад� ...

, since 2007

External links

Official page of the magazine
Astronomy in Serbia Astronomy magazines Magazines established in 1953 Mass media in Belgrade Quarterly magazines Magazines published in Serbia