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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
Most Recent Blogs
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The Higgs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 9. It has been ten years since July 4, 2012. Yes, ten years since that massive discovery. With this…
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The Deep Sky
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 8. When most of us start out in astronomy, we usually focus first on learning the Night Sky. This…
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Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 7. Some 26,000 light years away, between the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, is the center of the Milky Way…
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The History of the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 6. This is a story of the Universe. The Universe is big, really big. It also has an interesting…
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Stars
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 5. Stars are huge balls of hydrogen plasma powered by nuclear fusion reactions at their core. Stellar Distances Except…
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Astrology to Astronomy
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 4. I don’t know how many times I talk to someone who knows that I have an interest in…
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Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 3. The Hubble Constant The Universe is expanding. The farther a galaxy is from us, the faster it is…
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Project Mercury
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 2. Sixty years ago this month (February 20, 1962), Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the…
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Dark Energy
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 1. In a previous article, I explored the Standard Model of Particle Physics and discussed what ordinary matter is…
Index of Previous Blogs by Topic
Observing the Night Sky
The Earth
An Overview of The Universe
Discovering The Universe
A Few Odds and Ends
The Planets
The Earth’s Past
- A History of the Earth (Geologic Time)
- The Age of the Earth (The Search Begins)
- The Age of the Earth (Finally The Answer)
- 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
The Building Blocks of The Universe
The Solar System
Stars
Deep-Sky Objects
- The Deep Sky
- Galaxies
- Globular Clusters (Coming soon)
Observing The Universe
Are we Alone?
Mathematics and Numbers
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