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"South Jersey Skies" newspaper column

The Gloucester County Times is publishing this column on astronomy on Sundays (usually) every two weeks, both in its (old-fashioned) hard-copy edition and on-line. The on-line index page for this feature can be found here. If you'd like to look at past columns, here's the list. Click on the topic to go to that Web page.

 

8/10/08 Perseid meteor shower
8/23/08 What is a planet, anyway?
9/7/08 Observing Jupiter's moons
9/21/08 Seeing the Space Station
10/5/08 Celestial Movers and Shakers
10/19/08 The Sun is not average!
11/2/08 Planets of other stars
11/16/08 Why is it getting colder?
11/30/08 The Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
12/14/08 Facing the Moon
12/21/08 Planetarium 101
12/27/08 The Longest Year (on-line only)
1/11/09 The Honey Moon
1/25/09 Orion, King of the Sky
2/8/09 Venus at Its Brightest
2/22/09 When Satellites Collide
3/8/09 Snow Of Other Worlds
3/22/09 The Ends of the World (hard-copy 4/5)
4/19/09 Saturn on the Edge
5/3/09 The Biggest Star You Can See
5/17/09 The Most Dangerous Mission
5/31/09 The Most Difficult Mission
6/14/09 Sky Flares (Watching Iridium Satellites)
6/28/09 The Start of Summer...Maybe (hard-copy 6/28)
7/12/09 The End of the World in 2012
7/26/09 Birds of the Summer Sky
8/9/09 The Closest Mars
9/6/09 Shuttle-Watching 102
9/20/09 Upcoming star events
10/18/09 Water on the Moon
11/1/09 The Spotless Sun
11/15/09 A Cosmic Near-Miss
11/29/09 Parties in the Dark: Solstice Celebrations
12/13/09 The Geminid Meteor Shower
12/27/09 The Blue Moon
1/10/10 That Good Old Martian Spirit
1/24/10 Mars at Its Closest
2/7/10 Amateur Astronomer Catches Exploding Star
2/21/10 Supermodels and Heavenly Bodies
3/7/10 Quakes on Other Worlds
3/21/10 Eggs on the Equinox
4/4/10 A Tale of Two Stars
4/18/10 Why it's dark at night
5/2/10 Volcanoes on Other Worlds
5/16/10 Why the Sky is Blue
5/30/10 Watching Space Tracks
6/10/10 Measuring the Earth
6/24/10 Skies of Saturn
8/8/10 Silent Spirit (the Mars Rover)
8/22/10 Diamonds in the Sky
9/5/10 Measuring The Speed of Light
9/19/10 Ancient Nuclear Reactors
10/3/10 Birth of a Martian Moon
10/26/10

Comet Hunting 101

(hard copy published 10/17/10 [I think...])

10/31/10 A Demon Star (Algol)
11/14/10 Sitting on the Earth, Driving on the Moon
11/28/10 Seeing Venus in the Daytime
12/12/10 Total Lunar Eclipse, Dec. 21
12/26/10 Citizen Science: Be an Astronomer!
1/9/11 Finding New Worlds: The Kepler Project
1/23/11 The 13th Sign of the Zodiac
2/6/11 Betelgeuse: A Second Sun?
2/20/11 Solar Sailing: Traveling by Light Sail
3/6/11 A Telescope on Ice
3/20/11 A New Digital Sky
4/3/11 Moonwatching
4/17/11 Junk in Space
5/1/11 The Darkest Parts of the Moon
5/15/11 How Big Are the Stars?
5/29/11 Free-Floating Planets
6/12/11 A Different Slant on the Seasons
6/26/11 Mini-Black Holes
7/10/11 Night-Shining Clouds
7/24/11 Slow and Steady: The Dawn Space Mission
8/7/11 The Earth's Asteroid Moon
10/2/11 Seeing the Inside of the Moon
10/16/11 Saturn's Super Hurricane
10/30/11 A Real Tatooine: Two Suns in Our Sky?
11/13/11 Observing Venus
11/27/11 YU55: A World Closer than the Moon!
12/11/11 Curiosity (the rover) on Mars
12/24/11 Astronomy Calendar 2012
1/8/12 Measuring the Sun
1/22/12 No Place Like Home: 55 Cancri e
2/5/2012 The Stars Like Sand
2/19/2012 Watching the Bright Worlds (Jupiter and Venus)
3/4/2012 Static From the Sky (Solar interference)
3/18/2012 Riding the Solar Cycle
4/1/2012 Planets on Parade
4/15/2012 Where the Moon Came From
4/29/2012 The End of Venus (Venus in our sky)
5/13/2012 A Scale-Model Universe (not yet published)

 

Last updated 5/7/2012.