Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog

  • Andromeda Galaxy

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 6. Andromeda was the princess from Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Cepheus, the king, and Cassiopeia, the…

  • Planetary Names

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 5. From time to time, we witness a parade of planets across the evening sky. Well, almost. At times,…

  • Globular Clusters

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 4. An Introduction to Globular Clusters Globular Clusters (aka Globulars) are some of the more interesting objects viewed by…

  • Galaxies

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 3. Deep-sky objects such as globular clusters, open clusters, and nebulae are some of the more interesting objects found…

  • Project Apollo

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 2. The Goal “First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade…

  • Return to the Moon with Artemis, Part II

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 34, Number 1. After the successful flight of Artemis I back in 2022, NASA was set to send astronauts back to…

  • The Ice Giants (Uranus and Neptune)

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 10. As far as we can tell, our solar system formed some 4 ½ billion years ago. It began…

  • Project Gemini

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 9. The second phase of America’s road to the Moon began sixty years ago in 1965 with the two-man Gemini…

  • Why is the Sky Blue?

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 8. There are many profound questions in the world of science and astronomy. Some have answers, and some do…

  • Mars, The Red Planet

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 7. Other than the Earth, the best-known planet in our Solar System is probably Mars. However, it isn’t a…

  • Vera Rubin (The Astronomer & An Observatory)

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 6 Vera C. Rubin Vera Rubin worked as an astronomer at Georgetown University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She…

  • The Age of The Earth (Finally the Answer)

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 5. The Earth was formed … some time ago … but when? To answer this question, I decided to…