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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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The Dark Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 3. This is part 2 of a 5-part series on the Universe (The Visible Universe, The Dark Universe, The…
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The Visible Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 2. This is part 1 of a 5-part series on the Universe (The Visible Universe, The Dark Universe, The…
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The Copernican Revolution
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 1. Back in the old days, people would look up at the sky. They noticed that the Sun and…
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FAS Astronomers Blog – Year End 2022
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Year End. I hope you enjoyed the FAS Astronomers Blogs for 2022. Just in case you missed a few, below…
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A Map of the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 15. Earlier this year (2022), I posted an article about the history of the universe. I followed with a…
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Telescopes
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 14. Have you ever walked out at night and looked up into the night sky? If you live away…
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Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 13. You might have seen some articles recently (September 2022) about Jupiter’s bright opposition. You also might remember Mars’…
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Geometry, Omega, and the Universe
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 12. Way back when we were in high school, many of us studied geometry. We learned about triangles, rectangles,…
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Return to the Moon with Artemis
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 11. Humans last set foot on the Moon in December 1972 when Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus-Littrow region.…
Index of Previous Blogs by Topic
Observing the Night Sky
- The Night Sky
- Observing the Stars
- Observing the Moon and Planets
- The Daytime Moon
- The Deep Sky
- Telescopes
- Planetary Opposition and Conjunction
- Astrology to Astronomy
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
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
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Black Holes
- Gravitational Waves
Spaceflight
The Solar System
- The Solar System
- Discovering Pluto
- Pluto and the Outer Solar System
- Reclassifying Pluto
- 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
FAS Astronomers Blogs and Young Astronomers Blogs – Copyright © 2020 Forsyth Astronomical Society/Bruce Gavett – All Rights Reserved.
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