Tag: The Young Astronomers Newsletter
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mapping the World
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 4. The world is round (actually it is an ellipsoid, but close enough). Maps are flat. This difference doesn’t…
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The Moon
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 3. On many nights when you look up into the night sky you can see a bright object known…
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Exploring Mars, Past and Present
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 2. Back in the 19th century there was a focus on the planet Mars. Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli studied…
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 1. The universe is a big place. There might be some 200 billion to over a trillion galaxies in…
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Year End Summary 2020
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Year End. Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the Young Astronomers Blogs for 2020. Just in case you missed…
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Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 24. Every so often, two (or more) planets appear close to each other in the night sky. We call…
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Exoplanets
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 23. Prior to 1992, the number of known planets was small; there were nine. Yes, nine. It was easy…
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Black Holes
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 22. The 2020 Nobel prize in physics was recently awarded to three scientists, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea…