Tag: science
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A Look Ahead to the Sky in July
As we approach the end of June, we’re going to take a look ahead to what’s coming in July. Of course, at the very beginning, the sky won’t look too different, but we will look through the whole month. We will still start at the beginning of the month and the beginning of the night,…
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Famous Star: Real Stars in Science Fiction
In the last piece, we took a look at some stars that were famous for moving quickly. The only one visible to the naked eye, 61 Cygni, is pointed out a the start of this video as well. Even though it has some unique features, it isn’t particularly well know. Some stars are incredibly famous,…
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Where you can See a Different Sky More Easily
Today, for this issue or installment, I decided to take a look at the sky from a couple of different locations and compare the kind of view that you can get. This is something that I regularly do as the sky does look from different places. Often, my focus is on comparing dark skies to…
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The Dark Side, or Far Side, of the Moon and Sampling
Today we are looking, once again, at the Moon. For a change, we are going to take a look mostly at the side of the Moon that we don’t normally get to see. The Chinese Space Agency, or the China National Space Administration, has recently landed a lander, Chang’e 6, on the Far Side of…
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Icy Moons: What, Where and Why do we Care?
Recently, we took a look at the difference between the gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter and the ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. Today, we are going to look at something else icy: icy moons. We already passed by an icy moon in the ice giant video, Triton, Neptune’s largest moon. Triton is tough…
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Undiscovering the Planet Vulcan
Today, we are mostly going to take a look at some mistakes. Mistakes from the past can leave behind little quirks and inconsistencies in things we use today, and catching mistakes is often a good thing. Realizing that we were wrong about something can help us prevent similar mistakes in the future. This is inspired…
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Ice Giants versus Gas Giants: A Closer Look at the Biggest Planets
Every month or so, I usually make a video talking about a particular planet. beginning with several months ago, up Jupiter and Saturn in the past couple of months. Having looked at the gas giants, the ice giants are next. Before giving them a specific video, I though it would be nice to compare the…
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June and the Summer Solstice
In the previous video we took a look forward to the very early part of June, particularly the planets that we will get to see in the morning. Despite Mercury and Jupiter being too close to the Sun for us to see in Ireland, from other locations four planets would be visible in the sky…
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Solar Day, Sidereal Day, and the Parade of Planets
I mentioned in the last article that there are different ways to measure a day, among them are the sidereal and solar days. This little tidbit was not mentioned in the previous video attached to that article, just one of the many little bonus facts readers of the website get. In the above video, I…
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What we Can See in Late May and Early June
At the start of May, we looked ahead to the whole month, but now as we approach the end I think it’s worth a second look. Even though the weather is getting hotter, the Earth is actually approaching its furthest from the Sun in our elliptical orbit. How close we are to the Sun in…
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