I've had a couple of people excitedly show me the Star Walk astronomy app on their iPhones and ipads, and…
[/caption] From the Royal Astronomical Society Many of the Milky Way’s ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn…
Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher, is credited with saying, "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There…
Caption: A page from "Touch the Universe." Image courtesy of Noreen Grice. The stunning images provided by space- and ground-based…
Caption: View of the moon at perigee and apogee As a teacher, I'm always on the lookout for labs with…
This image of the solar corona contains a color overlay of the emission from highly ionized iron lines and white…
This week at the AAC Conference, astronomers released a new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, a dwarf galaxy…
[/caption] During the “Great Debate” of 1920 astronomers Herber Curtis and Harlow Shapley had a famous debate on the nature…
[/caption] This week at the AAS meeting scientists revealed two new studies on a star forming region in Vela. The…
Here comes the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held during January 3-7, 2010 in Washington, DC. With over…