Weather permitting of course. And last Tuesday the weather was finally permitting and that main telescope was aimed at Saturn. The public has a standing invitation to visit the Ladd Observatory on Tuesday evenings, but if it is rainy or even overcast, nobody will be there. On hand last week to show us around were […]
It’s been nine years but the New Horizons unmanned spacecraft — NASA’s first mission to the Pluto system and the Kuiper belt — makes its final approach today. Here’s the deal. It’s Antarctic winter on Pluto. The sun has not been visible for twenty years in this frigid south polar region; it will not shine
In anticipation of the big day on June 5th, the Providence Athenaeum has organized a tutorial of sorts for this coming Tuesday, May 29th — From Transit Street to the Stars: the Transit of Venus in 1769 and Today. In June 1769 a cannon fired, a telescope was pointed at the sun, and a group
It might go something like this. And maybe some day you can look at it through the new telescope at the Margaret Jacoby Observatory at CCRI. Algol is from the Arabic ‘The Ghoul’ because it was spooky or something, and The Pleiades is a true star group (not a constellation) known in Japan as Subaru
Presumably Professor Britton has no trouble getting a date — he’s an uber-cool musician with a 16-incher. (Okay okay, that’s obvious and juvenile, but at least I didn’t make a salacious pun in my headline like Dave said he wasn’t gonna do, but then he totally did!). An article in yesterday’s ProJo reported on the
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