Tag Archives: astronomers
Life in the Cosmos
The Search for Life SMART NEWS See the Messages NASA Will Send to Space on [...]
Guy Consolmangno, the Vatican’s Chief Astronomer, on Balancing Church With the Cosmos
Brother Guy Consolmagno is the director of the Vatican Observatory and president of the Vatican [...]
Ten Celestial Events You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020
Every year, meteor showers dazzle viewers, eclipses reveal the orbital balance of our planet with [...]
Spitzer’s 16 Years of Scanning the Cosmos
Robert Hurt, a visualization scientist working for the Spitzer Space Center, is taking the decommission [...]
The Wonder of Avi Loeb
Abraham Loeb knows how improbable it is that he’s here. First, there had to be [...]
The Five Big Ways the James Webb Telescope Will Help Astronomers Understand the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope, the much anticipated, revolutionary newcomer to the pantheon of space [...]
Ten Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2022
Despite another chaotic year on planet Earth, 2021 was a great time for amateur astronomers. [...]
Ten Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2023
Last year was an excellent one for amateur astronomers. Stargazers in the United States saw [...]
Seven Amazing Accomplishments the James Webb Telescope Achieved in Its First Year
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sophisticated space observatory ever built, has [...]
The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Mars
At an average of 140 million miles away, Mars is pretty much in Earth’s planetary [...]
The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Venus
One of the main arguments for studying other planets is for what they can tell [...]
What It Takes to Complete the Ultimate Skywatching Endurance Challenge
When attending their first meeting with the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas several years ago, [...]
The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Mercury
It seems like Mercury, sitting so close to the sun, should already be a dead [...]
9 Celestial Omens
© natros/Fotolia In the beginnings of science, astronomers studied the motion of the Sun, the [...]