Month: January 2009

I just read this in Astronomy Beat #15, a publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, One of the most active leaders of the [Astronomical Society of the Pacific] was Charles H. Adams, an insurance broker and businessman, who had an amateur interest in astronomy.  After joining the ASP Board in 1923, he soon …

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As part of the International Year of Astronomy, you can find a daily podcast on astronomy at http://365daysofastronomy.org/.

The Globe-at-Night program is an annual program where you (yes, you) can help by providing data on the visibility of stars in the night sky. Your role as an amateur scientist is to make some observations (details on their web site), record the results, and submit them to the Globe-at-Night program. Your observations, along with …

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There’s a New York Times Science article from yesterday reporting on recent measurements indicating that the Milky Way, our home galaxy is bigger than previously thought. We now qualify as a peer of the Andromeda galaxy. The critical measurement was how fast we revolve around the galactic center. The faster we’re going, the more massive …

Milky Way Gets a Little BiggerRead More