Omega Centauri as seen from Arizona. (Image Credit: Mike Weasner/Cassiopeia Observatory).
The Magellanic Clouds. The Tarantula Nebula. Sure, the Southern Hemisphere skies have all the “good stuff…” but did you know that in the summer months, YOU may be able to nab one of its crowning glories? [Read more...]
The Early Astronomers: A Brief History of Astronomy.
Ye ‘ole telescope…(Photo by Author).
(Editor’s note: The following is an essay wrote by yours truly in the quest for a science teaching degree. Now that said degree has come to fruition, our writing can be immortalized forever in a re-vamped blog format).
Astronomy is one of man’s earliest pursuits for knowledge. Once we began living in organized communities and brute survival and safety wasn’t a constant and overriding concern, we began to look up and ponder our place in the cosmos and contemplate the workings of the heavens above us. [Read more...]