You look up, and it’s quiet. Deceptively quiet. The night sky feels like a painting that dried billions of years…
Browsing: Celestial Objects
From comets to star clusters, what’s out there? We define the different types of Celestial Objects and explain how astronomers categorize planets, moons, and nebulas.
Stand in the middle of a desert, or anywhere far from the light pollution of a city, and look up.…
You could take every star in the Milky Way—all 100 billion of them—and bundle them together, and a single quasar…
Space looks quiet. It isn’t. When you stare up at the night sky, you see a peaceful canvas of twinkling…
You remember your first time. I certainly remember mine. It wasn’t at some fancy observatory with a telescope the size…
I still remember the first night I actually found the Hercules Cluster. I wasn’t using a fancy computerized telescope that…
I still remember dragging my dad’s old telescope onto the back lawn, shivering in the cold, just to catch a…
You look up, see one Sun, and figure that’s just how the universe works. Solo stars. One shadow. Simple. We…
Most of us grew up watching Luke Skywalker stare wistfully at a twin sunset on Tatooine. It’s an iconic image.…
You’ve seen the pictures. We all have. That glowing, fiery doughnut surrounding a black hole in the movie Interstellar, or…