Tag: The Young Astronomers Newsletter
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Earth Day 2020
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 9. On April 22, 1970, a senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, proposed the idea of a “national teach-in on…
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Houston, we’ve had a problem
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 8. Something happened on April 13, 1970 – fifty years ago this month. A spacecraft was heading for a…
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The Harvard Computers
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 7. Stars come in all sizes, colors and temperatures. They also have a spectrum consisting of dark (absorption) lines,…
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Happy Pi Day and The Hierarchy of Numbers
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 6. It’s March 14, 2020. So, HAPPY PI DAY! Yes, Pi = 3.14, get it? Anyway, Pi is a…
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The Great Observatories
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 5. Light is all around us. When we look at the world, we can see incredible colors. However, visible…
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Discovering Pluto
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 4. Remember Pluto? Yes, Pluto. It was a planet for a long time, then it wasn’t. Pluto was discovered…
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Gravitational Waves
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 3. In 1915, Albert Einstein overturned Newton’s theory of gravity. He published his General Theory of Relativity which said…
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Betelgeuse is Dimming
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 2. Astronomers measure the magnitude of a star in a bit of a strange way that dates to Hipparchus.…
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Underground Oceans
Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 1. Two of the most interesting moons in the solar system, other than Titan, are Enceladus and Europa. Enceladus…
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Happy New Year – changes coming soon
With the new year, The Forsyth Astronomical Society will be changing the format of the Young Astronomers Newsletter. Rather than a publication published on a…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter December 2019
The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 12 December 2019 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Three…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter November 2019
The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 11 November 2019 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: NASA publishes…
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