Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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Moons of the Solar System
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 16. On many nights when you look up into the night sky you can see a bright object known…
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The Sun
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 15. If you travel far enough north (or south) and look up at the night sky, you might see…
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Observing the Moon and Planets
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 14. Saturday, October 16, 2021, is International Observe the Moon Night, so this is a great time to go…
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Unidentified Flying Objects (The Beginning)
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 13. Unidentified Flying Objects … UFOs … Hmmm … I might be stretching things a bit with this article.…
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Mercury
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 12. Mercury is the closest of our Solar System’s eight official planets to the Sun. It speeds around the…
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Viruses and Vaccines
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 11. A pandemic has engulfed the world! Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that can…
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Neptune
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 10. If we were to travel out in the Solar System, we would eventually reach the last of the…
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The Night Sky
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 9. The stars follow a very regular pattern when viewed from the Earth. They appear to move from east…
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DNA, RNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and the Code of Life
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 8. Recently, a large rover named Perseverance landed on the planet Mars. Perseverance is searching for signs that Mars…
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First Humans in Space
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 7. Sixty years ago, humans from the planet Earth left their world for the first time and journeyed above…
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Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the Outer Solar System
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 6. Remember Pluto? Pluto was discovered in 1930 and for over seventy years was considered the ninth planet. Pluto…
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Uranus
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 5. For thousands of years, humans looked up at the night sky and observed the stars. They found that…
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