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If you live in a northern climate then chances are good that you see snow and ice as does your koi pond. Its natural to worry about your koi during the winter periods, especially if they have been around for years and years. Fortunately, koi are adapted to dealing with […]

Many are interested in the night sky and some even dream of exploring outer space. However, for most of us the closest we will ever get to seeing space up close is through a telescope. One of the best manufacturers of telescopes out there is Celestron. They have been producing […]

Dorion Sagan’s 1990 paperback Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth (McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-553-28883-0) does more than deliver a unique vision of the planet’s life support system. It also challenges the traditional view of humanity as the dominant feature of life on Earth. Perhaps that is no less than should be expected […]

In ancient times it was known that the king who was named “Di Ku” and was famous as he knew and was quite well versed in the study and subject of astronomy. He was known to make most of his decisions based on careful study and consultation of the stars […]

Although increasing advanced astronomy methods have yet to accurately determine the time and manner of the universe’s creation, observation of galaxies many billions of years old has enabled cosmologists to deconstruct the process, whose catalyst, designated the “Big Bang Theory,” occurred approximately 15 billion years ago. The origin, not necessarily […]

The Cosmic Zoo is filled with exotic inhabitants that frequently challenge the limits of the human imagination. Of these strange beasts, black holes certainly rank as some of the most mysterious, as well as enticing, entities. As a result, they have captivated scientists for years with their irresistible Sirens’ Song […]

As teachers, we tend to present material to our classes in the form of the results of our discipline’s work. We collect the data, do the reading and synthesize the material into a finished product. Students, in their assignments and exams, are generally expected to demonstrate that they have learned […]

The Ascendant is defined as the intersecting point between the Ecliptic and the Celestial Horizon and is the Eastern Celestial Horizon. It is represented by the formula Tan L = Sin E / cos E cos w – Sin w Tan A where A is Latitude of the place, w […]

This is a review of the book Ecology: The Ascendent Perspective, by Robert E. Ulanowicz. Brief overview: Ecology: The Ascendent Perspective, first published in 1997, is in many ways a more accessible and more philosophical follow-up to Ulanowicz’s groundbreaking but highly technical Growth and Development (1986), and can also be […]

Far from our fiery Star, and well-hidden from our view in a distant region of perpetual twilight, there lies a belt composed of icy, frozen objects. Located beyond the orbit of the deep-blue, banded, ice-giant planet, Neptune–the most distant known major planet from our Sun–this myriad of strange objects, composed […]