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FAS Astronomers Blog

Click on image above for more details (Image Credits: NASA, JHAPL/Alex Parker, Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, ESA and the Planck Collaboration).

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

  • Moons of the Solar System

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 16. On many nights when you look up into the night sky you can see a bright object known…

    November 16, 2021
  • The Sun

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 15. If you travel far enough north (or south) and look up at the night sky, you might see…

    October 21, 2021
  • Observing the Moon and Planets

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 14. Saturday, October 16, 2021, is International Observe the Moon Night, so this is a great time to go…

    October 11, 2021
  • Unidentified Flying Objects (The Beginning)

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 13. Unidentified Flying Objects … UFOs … Hmmm … I might be stretching things a bit with this article.…

    September 27, 2021
  • Mercury

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 12. Mercury is the closest of our Solar System’s eight official planets to the Sun. It speeds around the…

    September 14, 2021
  • Viruses and Vaccines

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 11. A pandemic has engulfed the world! Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that can…

    August 30, 2021
  • Neptune

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 10. If we were to travel out in the Solar System, we would eventually reach the last of the…

    July 8, 2021
  • The Night Sky

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 9. The stars follow a very regular pattern when viewed from the Earth. They appear to move from east…

    June 9, 2021
  • DNA, RNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and the Code of Life

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 8. Recently, a large rover named Perseverance landed on the planet Mars. Perseverance is searching for signs that Mars…

    May 21, 2021
  • First Humans in Space

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 7. Sixty years ago, humans from the planet Earth left their world for the first time and journeyed above…

    May 3, 2021
  • Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the Outer Solar System

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 6. Remember Pluto? Pluto was discovered in 1930 and for over seventy years was considered the ninth planet. Pluto…

    April 20, 2021
  • Uranus

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 5. For thousands of years, humans looked up at the night sky and observed the stars. They found that…

    March 30, 2021
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Index of Previous Blogs by Topic

Observing the Night Sky

  • The Night Sky
  • Observing the Stars
  • Observing the Moon and Planets
  • The Daytime Moon
  • Auroras
  • Telescopes
  • Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
  • A History of the Constellations
  • Astrology to Astronomy
  • How to Pronounce It

The Earth

  • Why is the Sky Blue?
  • 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

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

  • DNA and RNA
  • Viruses and Vaccines
  • The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

The Planets

  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Mars, The Red Planet
    • Journey to a Red Planet
    • Exploring Mars, Past and Present
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
    • The Rings of Saturn
    • Titan
  • The Ice Giants (Uranus and Neptune)
  • Uranus
    • What’s in the name Uranus?
  • Neptune
    • The Discovery of Neptune

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

  • Atoms and Molecules
  • The Standard Model of Particle Physics
  • Gravity
  • The Higgs
  • Dark Matter
  • Dark Energy
  • Black Holes
  • Gravitational Waves

Spaceflight

  • First Humans in Space
  • Project Mercury
  • Project Gemini
  • Project Apollo
  • Houston, we’ve had a problem
  • Going Commercial
  • Return to the Moon with Artemis
  • Return to the Moon with Artemis, Part II

The Solar System

  • The Solar System
  • The Sun
  • The Moon
  • The Earth’s 2nd Moon?
  • Moons of the Solar System
    • Underground Oceans
    • Water, Phosphine, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System
  • Asteroids
  • Comets
  • Pluto
    • Discovering Pluto
    • Pluto and the Outer Solar System
    • Reclassifying Pluto
  • Exoplanets

Stars

  • Stars
  • Betelgeuse is dimming
  • Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
  • The Harvard Computers

Deep-Sky Objects

  • The Deep Sky
  • Galaxies
  • Globular Clusters (Coming soon)

Observing The Universe

  • The Great Observatories
  • The James Webb Space Telescope
  • Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
  • Vera Rubin (The Astronomer & An Observatory)
  • A Map of the Universe

Are we Alone?

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

Mathematics and Numbers

  • Happy Pi Day and The Hierarchy of Numbers

FAS Astronomers Blogs and Young Astronomers Blogs – Copyright © 2020-2026 Forsyth Astronomical Society/Bruce Gavett – All Rights Reserved.

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