Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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Mapping the World
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 4. The world is round (actually it is an ellipsoid, but close enough). Maps are flat. This difference doesn’t…
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The Moon
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 3. On many nights when you look up into the night sky you can see a bright object known…
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Exploring Mars, Past and Present
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 2. Back in the 19th century there was a focus on the planet Mars. Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli studied…
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 1. The universe is a big place. There might be some 200 billion to over a trillion galaxies in…
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Year End Summary 2020
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Year End. Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the Young Astronomers Blogs for 2020. Just in case you missed…
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Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 24. Every so often, two (or more) planets appear close to each other in the night sky. We call…
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Exoplanets
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 23. Prior to 1992, the number of known planets was small; there were nine. Yes, nine. It was easy…
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Black Holes
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 22. The 2020 Nobel prize in physics was recently awarded to three scientists, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea…
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Asteroids
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 21. When we think of our solar system, we typically think of our Sun, eight planets, and five dwarf…
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Water, Phosphine, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 20. Although many have dreamed about life on other worlds, so far, life has only been found on the…
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Rocks and Minerals
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 19. Walk outside and look down. You might see a few rocks. A casual glance might reveal that the…
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Jupiter
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 18. If you look up in the night sky over the next few months you might see what looks…