Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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The Higgs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 9. It has been ten years since July 4, 2012. Yes, ten years since that massive discovery. With this…
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The Deep Sky
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 8. When most of us start out in astronomy, we usually focus first on learning the Night Sky. This…
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Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 7. Some 26,000 light years away, between the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, is the center of the Milky Way…
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The History of the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 6. This is a story of the Universe. The Universe is big, really big. It also has an interesting…
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Stars
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 5. Stars are huge balls of hydrogen plasma powered by nuclear fusion reactions at their core. Stellar Distances Except…
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Astrology to Astronomy
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 4. I don’t know how many times I talk to someone who knows that I have an interest in…
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Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 3. The Hubble Constant The Universe is expanding. The farther a galaxy is from us, the faster it is…
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Project Mercury
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 2. Sixty years ago this month (February 20, 1962), Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the…
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Dark Energy
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 1. In a previous article, I explored the Standard Model of Particle Physics and discussed what ordinary matter is…