The feelings about space are those feelings that drive our love of astronomy and our desire to learn more and more about it. The thing…
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Of all of the celestial bodies that capture our attention and fascination as astronomers, none has a greater influence on life on planet Earth than…
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences of all time. When archeologists unearth ancient civilizations, even as far back as the cavemen, they invariably find…
It seems from the moment you begin to take your love of astronomy seriously, the thing that is on your mind is what kind of…
When you enter into any new area of science, you almost always find yourself with a baffling new language of technical terms to learn before…
No matter how far along you are in your sophistication as an amateur astronomer, there is always one fundamental moment that we all go back…
There is something about parenthood that gives us a sense of history and a deeply rooted desire to send on into the next generation the…
If you are a serious astronomy fanatic like a lot of us are, you can probably remember that one event in childhood that started you…