FAS Astronomers Blog – Year End 2022

FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Year End.

I hope you enjoyed the FAS Astronomers Blogs for 2022. Just in case you missed a few, below is a summary of the articles from the past three years. Look for more blogs in 2023, which will be posted to https://www.fas37.org/wp/category/club-heading/fasastroblog/.

Observing the Night Sky

• Telescopes
• The Night Sky
• Observing the Moon and Planets
• Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
• Observing the Stars
• The Deep Sky

The Solar System (and beyond)

• The Sun
• Mercury
• Venus
• The Moon
• Journey to a Red Planet
• Exploring Mars, Past and Present
• Jupiter
• Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Discovering Pluto
• Pluto and the Outer Solar System
• Reclassifying Pluto
• Moons of the Solar System
• Underground Oceans
• Water, Phosphine, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System
• Exoplanets

Stars

• Stars
• Betelgeuse is dimming
• The Harvard Computers
• The Great Observatories
• The James Webb Space Telescope

The Universe, big and small

• The Great Debate
• The Standard Model
• The Higgs
• Dark Matter
• Dark Energy
• Black Holes
• Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
• Gravitational Waves
• Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
• The History of the Universe
• Geometry, Omega, and the Universe
• A Map of the Universe

Rocks, large and small

• Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
• Asteroids
• Rocks and Minerals

Spaceflight

• First Humans in Space
• Project Mercury
• Houston, we’ve had a problem
• Going Commercial
• Return to the Moon

Are we alone?

• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Unidentified Flying Objects (The Beginning)

Special Days

• Happy Pi Day
• Earth Day 2020
• Leap Year, the Solstice, and Seasons

Other Topics

• Mapping the World
• DNA and RNA
• Viruses and Vaccines
• Astrology to Astronomy