Do We Spend Too Much on NASA? Mark Rober is probably not a name familiar to many people. That’s too bad because he has a very interesting YouTube channel which you can easily find by typing his name into the search window. His latest post is the inspiration for this month’s column. Its title is …
Category Archive: What’s Up In The Sky
Peter Burkey's monthly news articles from the Holland Sentinel
Jan 30
What’s Up in the Sky
What’s Up in the Sky – February, 2018 A Super Blue Moon Eclipse I’m going to cheat a little this month. Although the focus of this column is usually on astronomical events occurring in February, I will be describing an event that happens tomorrow. It’s always cloudy in February anyway. I am talking about a …
Nov 28
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What’s Up in the Sky – December, 2017 2017 – An Historic Year for Astronomy What must it be like to devote an entire career to the study of a particular field and in a period of about two months have two discoveries made for the first time in history? That’s what has happened to …
Nov 01
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What’s Up in the Sky – November, 2017 Halloween and Astronomy? Happy Halloween! This being the first time this column has been published on Halloween, I thought it might be fun to see if there was any connection between the holiday and astronomy. Turns out there is. And it stems from the customs and beliefs …
Oct 21
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What’s Up in the Sky – October, 2017 An Historic Mission Comes to an End On September 15, the Cassini spacecraft became part of Saturn when it melted into its atmosphere upon its final descent from orbit. NASA sent out a tweet that said, “Earth received Cassini’s final signal at 7:55 a.m., ET. Cassini is …
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