Year End Summary 2020

Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 28, Year End.

Happy New Year!

I hope you enjoyed the Young Astronomers Blogs for 2020. Just in case you missed a few, here is a summary of the articles for the past year. More to follow in 2021.

The Solar System (and beyond)

• Venus
• Journey to a Red Planet
• Jupiter
• Saturn (and a conjunction with Jupiter)
• Discovering Pluto
• Underground Oceans
• Water, Phosphine, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System
• Exoplanets

Stars and starlight

• Betelgeuse is dimming
• Harvard Computers
• The Great Observatories

The Universe, big and small

• The Great Debate
• The Standard Model
• Dark Matter
• Black Holes
• Gravitational Waves

Rocks, large and small

• Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites
• Asteroids
• Rocks and Minerals

Spaceflight

• Houston, we’ve had a problem
• Going Commercial

Special Days

• Happy Pi Day
• Earth Day 2020
• Leap Year, the Solstice, and Seasons