Bahr's Astronomy Blog

One poem by Brian F. Kirkham reaches out to me in an interesting way.  The poem, "Life of a Star" discusses how the light burning ...

The Messier List app, downloadable at  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/messier-list/id364899443?mt=8 , contains the famous catalog of Messie...

http://cufos.org/Roswell_fs1.html In July of 1947, a rancher came upon a strange metal in his field and contacted authorities due to its s...

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/12031700-the-new-horizons-science.html The Planetary Society: The New Horizons scienc...

"Astronomy taught us our insignificance in nature" --Ralph Waldo Emerson www.seasky.org/quotes/space-quotes-astronomy.htm...

The sky map toward the middle of the magazines was easier to understand and had more information in the Astronomy magazine.  I believe the A...

Neutral metals like Na or even some molecules like TiO produce the precise absorption lines in cool red stars.  In hot blue stars, Hydrog...