I think it’s probably a given for anyone reading this: You’re a lover of astronomy. For me, it’s a way of de-stressing from a long day or week. When I start thinking on cosmic timescales I’m reminded ...

Ever been stumped when your kids ask questions about what they see in the night sky? You wouldn’t be the first parent to point at a star and call it a planet. Even if you can’t tell Vega from Venus, ...

Warm summer nights are a great time to get your kids interested in the universe around them. Astronomy is defined as the science which deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe as ...

On Earth’s surface, it’s hard to get kids to stop gazing at their screens. A new magazine, Astronomy for Kids, prompts children to look at the stars instead. The special child-focused magazine, on ...

Where are you guys going right now? Anywhere? Nowhere? Maybe the grocery store every 10-14 days, like me? I’m on Week Five of social distancing and while on yet another walk today, I told my ...

Have you ever looked up on a clear night at the stars and noticed that some of them seemed to twinkle or dance? This twinkling is due to the Earth’s atmosphere. When light reaches Earth from a star, ...

My interest in astronomy began in third grade, when my parents bought me a set of constellation flash cards. We couldn’t afford a telescope, but I was able to borrow a neighbor’s small refractor from ...

The New England asters at Crossroads — and really, all over Door County — have been nothing short of spectacular this fall. Asters reach their peak just as most of the flowers begin to fade, set seed ...

Our lives have been turned upside down by COVID-19 since the last time I wrote this column. Children of all ages are out of school and parents are doing double-duty as teachers. But despite the ...

The last days of spring seem to boast a particular twinkle around twilight, and even if this special shine is partly imagined, we can still concur that June stargazing is particularly pleasurable.