Using existing videos of the famed hammer and feather experiment, performed by Commander David Scott during his last Apollo 15 moon walk, we use a basic high school physics lesson to demonstrate that the moon’s surface was the only place he could be. The result would have been quite different if performed anywhere on the[…]
Public service post and opinion by James Daly, Ph.D. All of us who have been doing astronomy, professionally or as a hobby, for much of their lives, never really had to worry that the night sky itself would be gone, in whole or in part — until now. After all, the sky and the universe[…]
I gazed up at the full moon, hanging low and bright oe’r the trees last night, warm and inviting on that August night. August’s full moon is known as a “Sturgeon Moon” The August 2025 Full Sturgeon Supermoon is still low in the southeast over two and half hours after its rising at 8:05 PM,[…]
Note: This article was originally published in Substack Support for Science Discovery stops with Genocide Opinion by James Daly, Ph.D. While researching the new Type Ia supernova (SN 2025rbs) in NGC-7331, I discovered that all “transient” events and discoveries (supernovae are transient by their very nature), end up recorded on the “Transient Name Server” or[…]
