Whenever I’ve had the privilege of showing a telescopic view of Saturn to someone who has never seen it before, the almost inevitable response is disbelief. “Is that real?” Especially if its beautiful rings are highly tilted, the view is…
Month: July 2025
Mirror, Mirror
The first telescopes, like the ones Galileo used to discover the moons of Jupiter and craters on the moon, were crude by today’s standards. Nonetheless, they were gateways to a new understanding of our place in the cosmos. All telescopes…
Strange Visitor from Another Star
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s 3I/ATLAS, the third known object to visit our solar system from outside it. The “3” in the name indicates that it is the third such object, the “I” that it is interstellar,…
Tagged with: Interstellar Objects
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