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At various points throughout the year, I have people asking me if I saw the meteor shower the night before. Almost every time, that question is the first time I even heard of said shower. So this time, I’ve made a list of some of the most impressive astronomical events of the upcoming year. Many [...]
Posted by Simon Griffin on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Nature · Tagged Annular Solar Ecipse, astronomical events in 2013, Astronomy, Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Hybrid Solar Eclipse, lyrids meteor shower, meteors, moon, partial lunar eclipse, Perseids Meteor Shower, planets at opposition, Simon Griffin, space, sun, The Geminids, TopTenz
The universe is a huge and mysterious place with numerous galaxies and stars. In our Solar System, we have eight planets which orbit our sun. They are named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Our planets are very different from each other and are unique in their own special way. Jupiter, in [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged Astronomer, Astronomy, astronomy facts, calderas, Callisto, environment, Europa, facts about Jupiter, Galilean moons, Galileo Galilei, Giovanni Cassini, Io, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter facts, Metis, Moons of Jupiter, New Horizons, Pioneer 11, planet, Planetary science, planets, Pluto, radiation, Saturn, Spacecraft
Astronomy is the cool, sexy field of the scientific world. Sure, biologists and chemists are out there curing diseases or whatever, but they’re just so boring. Meanwhile, astronomers are busy showing us sweet pictures of distant planets and playing around with telescopes the size of buildings. How can you compete with that? You can’t, so [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Science · Tagged Albert Einstein, Arno Penzias, Astronomer, Astronomy, big bang, big bang theory, Caroline, Cosmic microwave background radiation, Didier Queloz, Edwin Hubble, Exoplanetology, Extrasolar planet, Galileo Galilei, Geocentric model, Heliocentrism, important astronomy, important scientist, Johannes Kepler, Karl Jansky, microwave, Movement of the Stars and Planets, Obsolete scientific theories, outerspace, planet, Planetary science, planets, radiation, Religion and science, Robert Wilson, scientist, space, telescope, telescope maker, top 10 astronomical discoveries, top 10 astronomy, top 10 lists, top 10 space, William Herschel
