How to meet
When scientists get together, what do they do?
Articles Tagged with astronomy
Build or buy?
Telling time
Cutting it short
A gathering of astronomers
Several things at once
Multiplexed astronomy
An example of answering several questions at once, by doing several kinds of observation at once.
Sometimes the answer is no
When finding nothing is something
In science, coming up with the answer is often the easy part.
The importance of being there
The Sun, clouds and people
Levels of predictability
The recent solar eclipse demonstrates much more than astronomy. (Image: one page of Guy Ottwell’s The Under-Standing of Eclipses, available here)
The Crescent Sun
Enjoying a partial eclipse
We didn’t make it to the path of totality last week. But we found that a partial eclipse can be just as enjoyable, for unexpected reasons.