Monthly Archives: January 2016

Identity Crisis

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Gabi Grys

I have, apparently, been living a lie. My entire life, I thought I was an Aquarius, yet I have recently come to learn that my astronomical Sun sign is off by nearly a month. Because of the phenomenon of precession (the work of the gravitational pull and the conservation of angular momentum to correct the […] Continue reading →

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The Great American (solar) Eclipse

Posted on January 26, 2016 by segalastronomyblog

There are two different types of eclipses; lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. I want to talk today about a particular solar eclipse coming our way. The Great American Eclipse. But I regress. Solar eclipses and lunar eclipses differ in a very important way; a lunar eclipse is when Earth lies directly between the sun and […] Continue reading →

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Wibboly-Wobboly

Posted on January 26, 2016 by impossibleensign

The Earth’s movement through space resembles that of a spinning top.. Continue reading →

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Eclipses Throughout History

Posted on January 26, 2016 by astr2110geoffren

Eclipse science! You’re just mowing grass one day and the sun disappears. You look up and see an eclipse. Today, people would just brush it off for the most part. There would be some oohs and ahhs, but most people would just treat it like any other day and probably forget about the occurrence a […] Continue reading →

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Vast Size and Scale of the Universe

Posted on January 26, 2016 by siyuan2016

Source:Getty We talked about the size and scale of our universe in the class last week, and here I’d like to add some interesting facts and discoveries in this field.Though we have already had some approximations about universe’s age,nowadays it is still hard to estimate the exact size of the it. With the development of […] Continue reading →

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Blog 1: Time travel

Posted on January 26, 2016 by paxtonastronomy

Last winter break, I saw Interstellar. While various aspects of the movie interested me, the thing that especially stood out was the focus on time and the complexities it holds. Although Interstellar clearly wasn’t completely accurate in its science, it still brought up different aspects of space travel that are legitimate. In my opinion, the […] Continue reading →

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Blog 1: Time travel

Posted on January 26, 2016 by paxtonastronomy

Last winter break, I saw Interstellar. While various aspects of the movie interested me, the thing that especially stood out was the focus on time and the complexities it holds. Although Interstellar clearly wasn’t completely accurate in its science, it still brought up different aspects of space travel that are legitimate. In my opinion, the […] Continue reading →

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Blog #2 | Zodiacs and Precession

Posted on January 26, 2016 by briannagalgano

I am never one to really pry much life into zodiac signs, or how they should tell about my personality or future. However, the zodiac constellations have some real hard science about them. Zodiacs signs corresponding to the constellation that the Sun is located in front of from our perspective on Earth. There is usually […] Continue reading →

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goddess of love

Posted on January 26, 2016 by ranibanjarian

Venus is many things. I don’t know much about it besides the fact that it is hot, orange, it’s the second planet in the solar system, and is the goddess of love in Roman mythology. On June 5th, 2012, a couple of days after I graduated from high school, my dad and I woke up at … Continue reading goddess of love → Continue reading →

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Sky Map

Posted on January 26, 2016 by solarsystemjoe

In our Solar System class, we’ve been using Stellarium to investigate the relative motion of constellations and our Sun.  Beyond the ability to lapse time, the features that were most helpful to me were the ones that labelled the constellations and drew lines in between the stars that formed these constellations. As an amateur astronomy student, I’ve […] Continue reading →

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