Articles Tagged with astronomy

time and tide

Published on March 19, 2024March 17, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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A detached bit of night

Published on March 12, 2024March 10, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The solar eclipse

We remind you of an opportunity next month.

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New books and old

Published on February 20, 2024February 18, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Adding and subtracting

We have too many books, but sometimes we add more.

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Moonset, Moonrise

Published on October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Signs in the sky

Was it a long day, or a long night?

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People are different

Published on October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Visual photometry

Human eyes are not the same as electronic detectors.

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Eclipse planning

Published on September 19, 2023September 17, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Choosing one’s data

We contemplate activity during a very short time span.

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Rewriting the textbooks

Published on August 8, 2023August 7, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Big Bang vs. Steady State

Published on June 20, 2023June 19, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A misremembered episode

The Big Bang won.  But not the way it’s normally presented.

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Has it been done?

Published on May 30, 2023May 28, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The literature search

We describe a necessary but sometimes tedious step in scientific research.

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A prestigious journal

Published on April 11, 2023April 10, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

More on science publishing

How did it get this way?

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