A new introductory textbook called Astronomy has just been published by OpenStax, a national, non-profit project to develop high-quality, introductory textbooks that are free to students. The ...
It’s been one year since Salem photographer Andrew Studer captured one of the iconic images from last year’s total solar eclipse. The picture of rock climber Tommy Smith standing atop Smith Rock State ...
THIS book is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing mass of astronomical literature. It is, in the main, well arranged, clearly written, and adequately supplied with excellent illustrations and ...
All sky view of the Milky Way taken by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for young women. While Bryan corresponded with some of the ...
Young, Charles A (Charles Augustus) 1834-1908 Uranography : a brief description of the constellations visible in the United States : with star-maps, and list of objects observable with a small ...
Astrophysicist and science educator Eric J. Chaisson ’68 has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific ...
Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are 'dead stars' that continuously cool down over time. Astronomers are challenging this theory after ...