Tag: science
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Earth’s (Temporary) Second Moon! Asteroid 2024 PT5
Today we are finally going to take a look at Earth’s second moon or at least our temporary second moon, asteroid 2024 PT5. In a recent previous piece, I talked about some of the classes of near-earth objects, like the Apollonian asteroids, the Aten group and more. There are a few objects that go around…
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The Southern Sky as the Seasons Change
Today we are going to take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. As I was making the video associated with this article, I saw that the last time I gave a look at the Southern Hemisphere’s sky was this time of the year last year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are now leaving summertime,…
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Some Types of Near Earth Objects.
Today we are going to take another look at asteroids, focusing on a couple of particular subgroups of them. In a recent piece we looked broadly at comets and asteroid, as minor planets or small solar system bodies, as two groups that almost blend into each other. Today, we’re going to be looking at a…
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Upcoming Constellations and How to Spot Them
In this piece we will continue looking ahead into the month of October, but focusing on the constellations. Last time, we looked ahead to see where the planets are going to be and some of the other things we will be able to see in the sky, such as meteor showers. In this piece, I’m…
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A Look Ahead to October: Another Supermoon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the month of October. As always, my default perspective is from here in Ireland, and because I will be talking about the sky at night from here in Ireland, I won’t be dealing with the annular solar eclipse that is going to…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Chultúir 2024 / The Sky on Culture Night 2024
In todays piece we will be looking at the sky for Culture Night. Culture Night is the 20th of September, the day after the day this piece will have gone up on this website. Just in case you are getting to this article a few days later, most of the details presented here will remain…
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Betelgeuse/Beetlejuice
Today’s piece is mostly about the star Betelgeuse, however I will start the article the same way I started the video, by mentioning Culture Night. The 20th of September is Culture Night in Ireland, so it is coming up soon. If you are in Ireland, Culture Night puts on a lot of amazing events and…
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Asteroids and Comets, What makes them Different?
In today’s piece we are going to talk a little bit about asteroids and a little bit about comets. Firstly however, in the most recent piece I showed off some of the basic features of Stellarium, it was more of a walk through of the different kinds of things that Stellarium can do than an…
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The Basics of Stellarium and How to Use It
Today, we are going to have a quick look at Stellarium. Stellarium is the software that I use for these videos, and it’s free. It’s available online and regularly updated. I just updated it, so I am currently using the latest stable version of the software, Stellarium 24.2. You can download it from stellarium.org. The…
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Pluto, and What is a Planet Anyway
In today’s piece, although we are going look at the dwarf planet Pluto, this serves mainly as a background to a discussion of the naming conventions around what planets, dwarf planets and asteroids and comets, also known as minor planets. There are different usages of the word planet, but I wish to be upfront here…
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