FAS Astronomers Blog

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The FAS Astronomers Blog is a series of discussions about science, 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

Archive of past blogs and newsletters

Most Recent Blogs

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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