Astronomy
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Edible Galaxy
A while back, I decided I wanted to make an edible galaxy. Like you do. I wanted to give the…
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Mad Quickies: Asteroid Art Challenge
Surprise! HEY-O! I will be doing the Quickies once a week. That’s right, you can see me frantically typing with…
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It’s the One That Says “Bad Astronomer”
Happy (one-day-belated) birthday to our favorite Bad Astronomer! Once, back in the day, Phil Plait was cool enough to be…
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The Winter AstrOlympics Are Outta This World
Faster. Higher. Stronger. Translated from Latin, the Olympic motto is everything space is to us! And the AstrOlympics are perfect…
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Visit the Glorious Trappist-1 System
Did you tune in for NASA’s big press conference today? Get excited, it’s a habitable-zone planet! Three of them, to…
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Before There was Sagan: How Helen Sawyer Hogg Brought Astronomy to the People. (Women in Science 74)
Before, “The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, all there ever will be,” there was, “The stars…
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She Filled the Sky: The Iron Astronomy of Annie Jump Cannon (Women in Science 70).
350,000 stars classified. It’s one of astronomy’s unbreakable and frankly not even approachable records, the scientific equivalent of the Ripken…
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Mad Art Cast: Sunken Treasure, Antikythera and special Guest Jim Tigwell
Welcome to another episode of Mad Art Cast with special guest and Mad Art Lab contributor, Jim Tigwell! This is…
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