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The FAS Astronomers Blog is a periodic blog with articles about astronomy, the universe, and more.
It replaced the Young Astronomers Blog and Young Astronomers Newsletter.
Editors
Bruce Gavett (2020 – present) Young Astronomers Blog / FAS Astronomers Blog
Bob Patsiga (Dec 2015 – 2019) Young Astronomers Newsletter
Art Gormely (1993 – Nov 2015) Young Astronomers Newsletter
Most Recent Blogs
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Gravity
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 4. Objects fall to the ground. That’s the nature of things on the surface of the Earth, and everywhere…
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You Don’t Need to Duck
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 3. Just recently, the folks at Live Science published a few articles about the risk of a dangerous asteroid…
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Cosmic Microwave Background
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 2. Just recently, it was reported in the news that Arno Penzias passed away at the age of 90.…
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The Daytime Moon
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 1. One of our favorite observation targets is the Moon. Most of the time, we observe it at night.…
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Asteroid 1, Dinosaurs 0
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 15. The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years. Despite their dominance, the dinosaurs disappeared. The commonly accepted…
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The Case of the Brontosaurus
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14b. When I was growing up, Brontosaurus was almost as famous as T. rex. However, Othniel Marsh made a…
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The Case of the Velociraptor
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14a. The dinosaur in the movie Jurassic Park, called Velociraptor, was modeled after another dinosaur named Deinonychus. I guess…
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Meet The Dinosaurs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14. In this article, we’ll focus on several individual dinosaurs and tell you a little more about them. As…
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The Classification of Dinosaurs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 13. As noted in An Introduction to Dinosaurs, Richard Owen (Owen 1842) created the designation Dinosauria meaning “Fearfully great…
Index of Previous Blogs by Topic
Observing the Night Sky
- The Night Sky
- Observing the Stars
- Observing the Moon and Planets
- The Daytime Moon
- The Deep Sky
- Telescopes
- Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
- Astrology to Astronomy
Stars
- Stars
- Betelgeuse is dimming
- Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
- The Harvard Computers
An Overview of The Universe
- The Visible Universe
- The Dark Universe
- The Expanding Universe
- The Microscopic Universe
- The Multiverse
Discovering The Universe
- The Copernican Revolution
- Owen Gingerich
- The Great Debate
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- The History of the Universe
- Geometry, Omega, and the Universe
A Few Odds and Ends
The Sun and Planets
- The Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- The Moon
- Journey to a Red Planet
- Exploring Mars, Past and Present
- Asteroids
- Jupiter
- Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
- Uranus
- Neptune
The Earth
- Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
- You Don’t Need to Duck
- Rocks and Minerals
- Mapping the World
- Earth Day 2020
- Leap Year, the Solstice, and Seasons
The Building Blocks of The Universe
- Gravity
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- The Higgs
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Black Holes
- Gravitational Waves
Spaceflight
The Solar System
- The Solar System
- 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
The Earth’s Past
- A History of the Earth (Geologic Time)
- The Rise of the Vertebrates
- An Introduction to Dinosaurs
- The Classification of Dinosaurs
- Meet The Dinosaurs
- The Case of the Velociraptor
- The Case of the Brontosaurus
- Asteroid 1 Dinosaurs 0
Observing The Universe
- The Great Observatories
- The James Webb Space Telescope
- Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
- A Map of the Universe
Are we Alone?
Mathematics and Numbers
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