Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
Original post by The Old Farmer’s Almanac

… and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas will discuss the mission in “Mini-SAR: An imaging radar for the Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon” on Thursday, April 3 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the Physics and Astronomy Building, Room 123. …
Original post by unknown

Hi, i am very much interested in astronomy. I was wondering whether there were great opportunities in this career path. and what the work consisted of? thanks.
Original post by Kushal

This is the fifth post in an ongoing series about the book of Enoch: This is definitely the weirdest section of the book, but it is kind of sciencey and cool in its own way. Enoch takes a break from his wanderings to explain why the sun …
Original post by Brian

If the lousy winter weather is keeping you indoors, you can still book up on science, history, and literature of astronomy. Originally appeared 2004-02-07. Author: Cheryl Haimann Genre: nonfiction Appearing for the week of 2008-04-07 …
Original post by unknown

“Let there be light”, said the Lord. And, whereupon electrons and protons recombined approximately 110000 years later, give or take, there was light.
Original post by Administrator

It’s both. This week we discuss the experiments that demonstrate this, explain how scientists figured it all out in the first place. What does wave/particle duality have to do with astronomy? Well, everything, since light is the only …
Original post by Fraser

Just a little update on Death from the Skies! I got the laid-out version last week; a hard copy that is printed the same way it will be when it’s in book form. It has pictures and everything! Very cool. I’m going through it looking for …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

Just after dark be sure to get out and look to the west. You will see a bright crescent of a young moon and you should be able to see the rest of the moon dimly lit as well. The dim light you see is light reflected from the Earth …
Original post by Tom

This Cassini shot of Saturn’s northern hemisphere does a fabulous job of showing the banding and storms within discernable zones. Saturn, like Jupiter has what is known as differential rotation, which simply means they rotate at …
Original post by Tom