The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...n's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe. Astronomy wasn't invented a couple of hundred years ago. Th... ...ho left detailed written documents to explain the astronomy behind the construction of their pyramids. It tur... ...Egyptians and the Mayans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/14/ancient-astronomers/What does astronomy have to do with Halloween? You'd be surprised! H... ...have their interiors eaten out from within. Bad Astronomy Blog has a gallery of creepy astronomy pictures that appear to have sprung from our nigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/27/a-cosmic-halloween-gallery/This unusual nebula, officially and rather dully named HH-222, stretches across ten light years of space. What caused its shape to form? NASA officials say, "One hypothesis is that the gas filament results from the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/24/waterfall-nebula-spills-out-the-heavens/Don't worry, the Earth isn't that close! It was just inserted into the picture so you could get a sense of the size of this huge solar flare that emerged last Thursday. It was spat out by sunspot AR 1302, which is so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/28/what-this-its-just-a-huge-solar-flare/Astronomers studying exoplanets have found one wit... ...e about it, including more Star Wars puns, at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/15/the-planet-with-two-suns/This image was selected as the Astronomy Picture of the Day last weekend. It was taken by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/08/the-night-side-of-saturn/This photograph of a meteor burning up in our... ...tting the ISS. What are the odds? Find out at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/15/what-a-falling-star-looks-like%e2%80%a6-from-space/Astronomers have discovered a new source of meteor... ...s for Allsky Meteor Surveillance, or CAMS. at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/28/a-future-close-encounter/These abandoned kilns in Nevada were made in the 1870s to turn wood into charcoal. Tom McEwan snapped this amazing picture of the night sky over them: Visible above the unusual kilns is a colorful star field, highligh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/27/the-milky-way-over-desert-kilns/The planet Neptune was first observed by telescope on September 24, 1846, although astronomers knew of its existence by other evidence, namely the effect it had on the orbit of Uranus. Since that discovery, Neptune has t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/12/one-year-of-neptune/
