(1) THERE has long been a need for a general book on celestial mechanics on a smaller scale and at a more accessible price than the standard work of Tisserand, and Prof. Plummer's recent ...
The cold air clears the night sky of clouds and creates ideal conditions for seeing the stars, planets, and other celestial highlights. Learn some of the basics of astronomy. This week marks the start ...
Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...
Clayton Chilcutt had never heard of a quasi-moon before his intro astronomy course at UGA. Then he won a worldwide contest to name one of Earth's curious celestial neighbors.
Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...
Welcome to the brave new world of modern, remote development in your browser. Let's get started with VSCode.dev. The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the ...