As and English and music major, let's just say taking Astronomy 101 was not how I thought I would be spending part of my spring semester. Here are some...
I first learned about Vera Cooper Rubin in my Astronomy-105 class, Stars/Galaxies/Cosmology, last semester with Professor Alyssa Sokol. Her extraordinary achievements in a male-dominated field have inspired me as...
Every night before I turn over to my right side and pull my blankets over my shoulder, I look out my apartment window at the night sky.
Over the past several decades, space research and exploration has improved not only in how we can better understand our universe but also in the diversity of who can...
To all the Noles who long for stargazing!
"Imagine every atom in existence, is a mini universe of its own…so really, we could be made up of billions of these types of mini universes."
Mercury retrograde—an astronomical phenomenon that sparks fear in many and elicits sarcastic jokes and eye rolls from others. But what is it really?
Did you get to see the Northern Lights this past weekend? People as far south as Alabama saw the Northern lights this weekend, bringing this natural wonder of the...
The Day That We Watched the Death of the Sun: My Thoughts on the Total Solar Eclipse