Month: May 2015

Astronomy and Me

This post is not informational so much as it is a personal reflection on what astronomy has meant in my life. Our regularly scheduled programming will resume in the next post. One of my very earliest memories comes from shortly

Cute Little CubeSats

What do this and this have in common? The first picture is of Lynchburg College’s 3.5-inch Questar telescope, a gift to the college from a long-time Board of Trustees member. For those who don’t know, Questar is to small telescopes

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New Horizons Update

As the New Horizons spacecraft closes in on its July flyby of Pluto, its cameras capture ever higher resolution images.  Here is a link to the latest released images.  It’s starting to get real!

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