On February 18, 1930, the off and on again planet Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. We’re wishing the hidden planet a happy birthday.
Category: Celestial Phenomena
With the Omricon Variant rearing its head, it makes sense that we can view the 4 December eclipse from Capetown, South Africa, since it supposedly comes from
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Paul and Prosper Henri named the 1621 Laurentia Asteroid for an amateur French chemist, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent on 21 April 1876. Laurentia is also the botanical
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Asteroid Sedna named for the Intuit myth, is farther away from the Sun than Pluto, thus making it one of the coldest known asteroids. How cold is
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Here is something I happened upon: an eclipse map. Looking at it and the arrow from its crest forward, it would seem that the LA area is
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Tempe, Arizona Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came
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The 1621 Laurentia Asteroid was named for an amateur French chemist, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent by its discovered Paul and Prosper Henri on 21 April 1876. Laurentia
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Cassini via JPL sent its last pictures of Saturn onto us this week, and they are real beauties. Cassini has been in space for two decades, and
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What is an eclipse and why was the 2017 eclipse so big? Celestiology looks at how eclipses happens and the August 21st eclipse versus all the others.
