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The #SETI Project with Alberto Caballero (Interview)

Posted on December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 by astrochange

Dr. Jim Daly of Astronomy For Change Interviews Alberto Caballero. The Exoplanet Project’s home page: https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home. Alberto holds a Master’s degree and is the host of the “Exoplanets” YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDS4j318UpKjNcpe_LeQxQ) whose focus is habitable exoplanets, extraterrestrial intelligence and Interstellar Travel. He is also involved with the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project, an international consortium of[…]

Late #August Sky, Beautiful #StarClusters, Last of the #Perseids

Posted on August 18, 2019August 20, 2019 by astrochange

In this video, Dr. Jim Daly of Astronomy For Change discusses remaining viewing options for the Perseid Meteor Shower and the mid-to-late August Sky, highlighting those constellations and objects of interest that are receding from view with the close of the season. The constellations discussed include Bootes, The Herdsman, Canes Venatici, The Hunting Dogs, Hercules[…]

Early #AugustNightSky, Beautiful #StarClusters, #Perseid #MeteorShower

Posted on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 by astrochange

In this video, Dr. Jim Daly of Astronomy For Change discusses the early August Night Sky with some of the jewels of the Summer Sky, some of the prominent constellations, the Milky Way, the major planets visible (Jupiter & Saturn), the phases of the moon for August 10 – 13 along with the Perseid Meteor[…]

The Old Astronomer

Posted on July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 by astrochange

The Old Astronomer To His Pupil By Sarah Williams Reach me down my Tycho Brahé, – I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from[…]

Amateur Astronomer Records Stellar Beacon 80 Million Light Years Distant

Posted on April 7, 2018September 1, 2022 by astrochange

On February 21st, in a heretofore unprecedented accomplishment, an amateur astronomer has recorded the “First Light” of a dying star over 80 million light years distant. As described in the Nature article, the first point of contact for the supernova’s photons after traveling 80 million years, a point in the distant past 15 million years[…]