Tag: Volume 28

  • Venus

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 13. Often when you look up into the night sky you will find a bright object low in the…

  • Going Commercial

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 12. In 1958, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed. NASA is a civilian agency responsible for overseeing…

  • The Standard Model of Particle Physics

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 11. I thought we would take a different view of the Universe than most astronomers do and explore what…

  • The Great Debate

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Number 10. We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. Our galaxy is around 100,000 light years across, and our…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…