Tag: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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A Map of the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 15. Earlier this year (2022), I posted an article about the history of the universe. I followed with a…
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Telescopes
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 14. Have you ever walked out at night and looked up into the night sky? If you live away…
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Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 13. You might have seen some articles recently (September 2022) about Jupiter’s bright opposition. You also might remember Mars’…
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Geometry, Omega, and the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 12. Way back when we were in high school, many of us studied geometry. We learned about triangles, rectangles,…
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Return to the Moon with Artemis
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 11. Humans last set foot on the Moon in December 1972 when Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus-Littrow region.…
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The James Webb Space Telescope
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 10. Those of us in the Forsyth Astronomical Society spend a good deal of time (too much time?) staring…
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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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