Tag: solar-system
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Uranus: A Closer Look at a Barely Visible Planet
Continuing my series taking a closer look at the planets, we are now onto Uranus. In previous pieces I have covered mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, so you can take a look back to see those if you’d like. The Earth, of course may fall a little outside the realm of astronomy, and for…
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Saghasanna Pláinéid nach bhfuil Againn: Iúpatar Te agus araile
In a recent video, I discussed the differences between the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. These two types of planets both contrast with the rocky planets in our solar system. This gives us three types of planets, though the gas and ice giants are commonly lumped…
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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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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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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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Looking Forward: Comet Halley in 2061 and Mercury’s Transit in 2032
As promised last time, we are going to be looking far ahead into the future to take a look at Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet has a period of about 75 years, though this varies due to the planets effect as it passes them. Right now, we have to wait 37 years for it to return…
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Damhsa na Pláinéid: Conas a Bhogann Siad
In this video, we take a look at the planets, particularly their motion through the sky. We’ve looked at the motion of various planets before, but mostly individually. Here, we’re looking at the planets all together, so we can compare their movements to each other and the background of the stars. We’ll start by looking…
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Jupiter: A Closer Look at the Giant Planet
In this video, we finally take a closer look at Jupiter. Jupiter has been incredibly prominent in our sky for months now, especially standing out as the brightest object in the sky at sunset the past couple of months, appearing as the very first object when the sky begins to darken. Jupiter is much further…
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The Analemma, How the Sun moves Throughout the Year
The analemma has been the subject of the past two Irish language videos so if you’ve been reading along here, then you already know that it is a figure eight shape traced out by the Sun over the course of the year. We’re going to take a further look at this motion, from Ireland and…
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Mars: How and When to See it and How it Moves in the Sky.
As you may have seen in some of the recent posts here, Mars is beginning to be visible in the morning sky, but we’re going to have to move to the end of March and beyond before it reaches a good position for observation, at least those of us in higher latitudes. Starting right on…
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