Tag: Volume 29
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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…