Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog

  • Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 17. (Updated April 2025). Have you ever gone out at night and looked up at the stars? From time…

  • Journey to a Red Planet

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 16. From time to time if you look up into the night sky, you might see an orangish/reddish object.…

  • Dark Matter

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 15. In a previous article, I explored the standard model of particle physics and discussed what ordinary matter is…

  • Leap Year, the Solstice, and Seasons

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 14. As we go through the year, we notice that our weather changes. For those of us who live…

  • Venus

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 13. Often when you look up into the night sky you will find a bright object low in the…

  • Going Commercial

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 12. In 1958, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed. NASA is a civilian agency responsible for overseeing…

  • The Standard Model of Particle Physics

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 11. I thought we would take a different view of the Universe than most astronomers do and explore what…

  • The Great Debate

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 10. We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. Our galaxy is around 100,000 light years across, and our…

  • Earth Day 2020

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 9. On April 22, 1970, a senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, proposed the idea of a “national teach-in on…

  • Houston, we’ve had a problem

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 8. Something happened on April 13, 1970 – fifty years ago this month.  A spacecraft was heading for a…

  • The Harvard Computers

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 7. Stars come in all sizes, colors and temperatures. They also have a spectrum consisting of dark (absorption) lines,…

  • Happy Pi Day and The Hierarchy of Numbers

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 6. It’s March 14, 2020. So, HAPPY PI DAY! Yes, Pi = 3.14, get it? Anyway, Pi is a…