In Roman mythology, every morning the goddess of the dawn would fly across the sky prior to the arrival of the sun. The name of this goddess was Aurora, which was Latin for dawn or sunrise. In my younger days, I would spend part of the summer at a lake in northern Vermont. Perhaps it […]
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Astronomy Thought Of The Day: Philae
Space, and space related things generally can make some pretty big headlines. Whether it be Hubble, the Curiosity landing on Mars, or Space Oddity Chris Hadfield serenading us from aboard the ISS, the milestones in exploration history act as nice distraction from the typical news stories of any given day. What may be even more […]
Astronomy Thought Of The Day: Small Bang?
I didn’t get to this earlier today as I had hoped, and really wanted to talk about probablity or NASA funding, but that will have to be saved for the future.A few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, hydrogen gas started to heat up and the first stars were formed. One of these first […]