June 2023

  • 2023 Supermoons

    According to the folks at EarthSky (and they checked with Fred Espenak, formerly of NASA) there will be four successive Supermoons this year on July 2-3, August 1, August 30-31, and September 28-29.

  • Asteroid Day – Friday, June 30, 2023

    66 million years ago, asteroid day wasn’t much fun for the dinosaurs. Just recently, there was another article about an asteroid having a close encounter with the Earth. Despite these warnings, the odds of one hitting us is very low. However, if you’re worried (or even if you’re not), Friday, June 30, 2023 is Asteroid…

  • The Solar System

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 7. We live in a solar system. So, just what is it? It is a star and all the objects and material that are gravitationally bound to the star. Until recently, the only example we knew of was our local group of planets orbiting the Sun. In 1995, Michel…

  • The Multiverse

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 6. This is part 5 of a 5-part series on the Universe (The Visible Universe, The Dark Universe, The Expanding Universe, The Microscopic Universe, and The Multiverse). Define the Universe and give five examples. Many years ago, this would be a joke, but today maybe not. Recently, astronomers have…

  • June 2023 Meeting – Wednesday June 14

    Please join us for the June 14, 2023 meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society. The meeting will be held at Kaleideum North (formerly SciWorks), 400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC. The topic will be EXOPLANETS – those planets orbiting other stars. The program starts at 7:30 pm. The Society’s business meeting will take place…