Historic interplanetary photo opp: Wave at Saturn from Earth on July 19

(Rockwall) June 25, 2013 – Adults today who grew up in the early 1960s and 70s experienced the Apollo program as well as the most iconic science communicator of all time,  Dr. Carl Sagan.  Many of you gentle readers in the infosphere who are in your early 50s were around to experience the wisdom of […]

Space exploration really is rocket science

Space exploration really is rocket science

Teach your children well Why are so many things seemingly falling out of space and landing on Earth?  If you have not asked this question in the past, you are very likely to start asking it by the 15th of January, 2012. By this date, the failed Russian spacecraft, Phobos Grunt, will have seen its […]

Part II: How to buy a telescope…

Part II: How to buy a telescope…

…and not be disappointed. Part II: The Telescope Tube  In part II of this story, we will address the optical tube, the telescope – the thing you put your eye in so as to see into space (stars, nebulae and galaxies, or near space, planets). (If you missed Part I, you’ll want to go here before reading […]

Earth’s recent asteroid encounter is closest in 200 years

Howdy!*  Looks like I’m the newest columnist here at the Blue Ribbon News. Our family is into our second decade of living in Rockwall and I’m very passionate about astronomy.  Since my personal mission statement (it’s on my astrodad website so it must be true) is to elevate the human condition by increasing our sense […]