Astronomy
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Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of United Astronomy Clubs of NJ and the National Space Society, bringing you the July starwatch for WNTI.ORG Summer is here! And so are the Dog Days of summer. We normally think of them as being hot and humid days. For the Egyptians, these days are when the Nile floods and […]
Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of the United Astronomy Clubs of NJ and the National Space Society, bringing you the November Starwatch for WNTI.ORG. Did you know that your head is getting older than your feet? That’s because your head is farther away from the gravity of the Earth. This is a result of Einstein’s Relativity […]
Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of United Astronomy Clubs of NJ and the National Space Society, bringing you the October Starwatch for the WNTI.ORG Who started Halloween? It was the Seven Sisters in heaven. Actually, we can only see six of them. These are the six visible stars in the Pleaides star cluster. In Greek mythology, […]
Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of United Astronomy Clubs of NJ and the National Space Society, bringing you the September Starwatch for WNTI.ORG Who compared motion of the planets to the sound of music? It was Johannes Kepler, known for his three Laws of Planetary Motion. Later in 1619, he wrote “The Harmony of the World”. […]
Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of United Astronomy Clubs of NJ and the National Space Society, bringing you the August 2020 Starwatch for the WNTI. So who invented the telescope? It was credited to Hans Lippershey in 1608. In1609, Galileo made his own telescope, and pointed it to the sky. And thus, the beauty and mystery […]
Hello! I’m Karl Hricko of the United Astronomy Clubs of NJ, and the National Space Society bringing you the April Starwatch for WNTI.ORG. New ideas and discoveries in science sometimes occur unexpectedly, and at times, unrecognized. Aristarchus of Samos conjured up a heliocentric or sun centered idea of our solar system in 3 BC. It […]
