Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Age of The Earth (The Search Begins)
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 4. The Earth was formed … some time ago … but when? To answer this question, I decided to…
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Titan
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 3. The outer Solar System covers a vast distance from Jupiter (at just under half a billion miles from…
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A History of The Constellations
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 2. As we look up at the night sky, we see patterns of stars. For many of us these…