Tag: The FAS Astronomers Blog

  • Comets

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 9. The Solar System is full of interesting objects – planets, dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids. These objects are…

  • Atoms and Molecules

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 7. We all were taught that things are made up of molecules, which, in turn, are made up of…

  • How to Pronounce It

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 6. Astronomical names are not always the easiest to pronounce. Many are derived from Latin, Greek, or another more…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Cosmic Microwave Background

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 2. Just recently, it was reported in the news that Arno Penzias had passed away at the age of…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…