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The FAS Astronomers Blog is a periodic blog with articles about astronomy, the universe, and more.
It replaced the Young Astronomers Blog and Young Astronomers Newsletter.
Editors
Bruce Gavett (2020 – present) Young Astronomers Blog / FAS Astronomers Blog
Bob Patsiga (Dec 2015 – 2019) Young Astronomers Newsletter
Art Gormely (1993 – Nov 2015) Young Astronomers Newsletter
Most Recent Blogs
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A History of The Constellations
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 2. As we look up at the night sky, we see patterns of stars. For many of us these…
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The Rings of Saturn
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 1. Saturn is without a doubt the most spectacular of the planets with its extensive ring system. All the…
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The Earth’s 2nd Moon?
FAS Astronomers Blog. Volume 32. Number 11. Although, it really didn’t count as an official moon, a small object entered into a temporary orbit about…
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Auroras
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 10. If you live way up north, you might look up at the night sky from time to time…
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Comets
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 9. The Solar System is full of interesting objects – planets, dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids. These objects are…
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Atoms and Molecules
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 7. We all were taught that things are made up of molecules, which, in turn, are made up of…
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How to Pronounce It
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 6. Astronomical names are not always the easiest to pronounce. Many are derived from Latin, Greek, or another more…
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Index of Previous Blogs by Topic
Observing the Night Sky
- The Night Sky
- A History of the Constellations
- Observing the Stars
- Observing the Moon and Planets
- The Daytime Moon
- The Deep Sky
- Auroras
- Telescopes
- Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
- Astrology to Astronomy
- How to Pronounce It
Stars
- Stars
- Betelgeuse is dimming
- Cosmic Distances, Stellar Brightness, and The Hubble Constant
- The Harvard Computers
An Overview of The Universe
- The Visible Universe
- The Dark Universe
- The Expanding Universe
- The Microscopic Universe
- The Multiverse
Discovering The Universe
- The Copernican Revolution
- Owen Gingerich
- The Great Debate
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- The History of the Universe
- Geometry, Omega, and the Universe
A Few Odds and Ends
The Sun and Planets
- The Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- The Moon
- Journey to a Red Planet
- Exploring Mars, Past and Present
- Asteroids
- Jupiter
- Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Comets
The Earth
- Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
- You Don’t Need to Duck
- Rocks and Minerals
- Mapping the World
- Earth Day 2020
- Leap Year, the Solstice, and Seasons
The Building Blocks of The Universe
- Gravity
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- The Higgs
- Atoms and Molecules
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Black Holes
- Gravitational Waves
Spaceflight
The Solar System
- The Solar System
- The Rings of Saturn
- What’s in the name Uranus?
- The Discovery of Neptune
- Discovering Pluto
- Pluto and the Outer Solar System
- Reclassifying Pluto
- The Earth’s 2nd Moon?
- Moons of the Solar System
- Underground Oceans
- Water, Phosphine, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System
- Exoplanets
The Earth’s Past
- A History of the Earth (Geologic Time)
- The Rise of the Vertebrates
- An Introduction to Dinosaurs
- The Classification of Dinosaurs
- Meet The Dinosaurs
- The Case of the Velociraptor
- The Case of the Brontosaurus
- Asteroid 1 Dinosaurs 0
Observing The Universe
- The Great Observatories
- The James Webb Space Telescope
- Sagittarius A* and the Event Horizon Telescope
- A Map of the Universe
Are we Alone?
Mathematics and Numbers
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