Astronomy information index
I have enjoyed amateur astronomy since the late 1980’s. I have owned several telescopes and have had so much fun hosting ‘sky parties’ or ‘star parties’ with work associates, neighborhood friends, and family members. My knowledge of the skies is very limited, but this has been a gratifying hobby that has blessed my life and hopefully many others. Following are fascinating and interesting facts gleaned over the years.
- Size comparisons
- Distances in space
- Fascinating facts
- More fascinating astronomy facts
- Essential astronomical information
- The Moon
- The Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto
- Twin planets – Uranus and Neptune
- The volcanism of Io
- Titan, Saturn’s large moon
- Universal Time
- Partial eclipses
- Planets, types of
- Revolution and rotation
- Celestial sphere
- Tides
- Phases of the Moon
- Comets
- Meteors
- Asteroids
- Auroras
- Universe, the universe
- Stars
- Variable stars
- Star names, the meanings of 40 star names
- Constellations
- Milky Way Galaxy, our home galaxy
- Why stargaze?
- The Star of Bethlehem, by Craig Chester
- The 21 cm radiation
- Wavelengths of light
- Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
- Why does it get dark at night?
- Winter Triangle, The
- Binary stars, the masses of binary stars
- Black holes
- Telescopes
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