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  • Mercury

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 12. Mercury is the closest of our Solar System’s eight official planets to the Sun. It speeds around the…

  • Viruses and Vaccines

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 11. A pandemic has engulfed the world! Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that can…

  • July 2021 FAS Meeting

    Wednesday July 14th, 7:30 pm, in the planetarium of Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The program will…

  • Neptune

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 10. If we were to travel out in the Solar System, we would eventually reach the last of the…

  • The Night Sky

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 9. The stars follow a very regular pattern when viewed from the Earth. They appear to move from east…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…