The magazine Popular Mechanics has a pretty good article up about how to get started in backyard astronomy. I know it’s good, because they interviewed me for it! Actually, it does have some solid advice, like starting off with binoculars, and joining an astronomy club before buying a telescope.
Recent models of the evolution of our galaxy suggest that the Sun's radial position in the Milky Way has changed during its history; in particular, the Sun may have formed … [Read more]
The National Maritime Museum's Royal Observatory in Greenwich England has announced the 2011 winners of its Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest, acr
The winners of the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition snapped some incredible images: astronomical objects from within our solar system and far into deep space. See more photos at the London Royal Observatory.
The winners of the third annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition were announced last week after receiving over 800 entries.
Dava Sobel mixes fact and fiction to great effect in her biography of Copernicus, finds Owen Gingerich.
Dava Sobel mixes fact and fiction to great effect in her biography of Copernicus, finds Owen Gingerich.
Blowing up a planet is hard. Really, really, really, really hard. In fact, if you had one "really" in that sentence for every Joule of energy it would take to make the Earth all explodey, you’d need more than 2 x 1032 of them. That’s a lot of "really"s.
