Category - Skyward

By David Levy In the late summer of 1964 I was leaving the Observatory of the Royal Astronomical Society’s Montreal Centre with some friends, one of whom was David Zackon. I asked the group...

By David Levy Over the last few months you must have read dozens of articles, online or in print, about the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Fortunately, this is not one of them. This article...

By David H. Levy Star GazersWhat crowd is this? What have we here? We must not pass it by;A telescope upon its frame, and pointed to the sky…William Wordsworth, 1806 While I was working on...

By David Levy We all got a special and thoroughly delightful present early on Christmas morning. Although I did not set my alarm, Wendee did get up around 5 am. I turned on our television...

“A Dragon Lives forever, but not so girls and boys.” By David Levy Three quarters of a century ago, during the Second World War, the famous Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, along with...

By David H. Levy Agreed, this seems like an awfully daffy title for an astronomy article. But there is method to the madness, and there is a story. During the late summer of 2019 there was...

By David H. Levy A few weeks ago, I received a message from Cameron Gillis, an amateur astronomer who wrote that he liked galaxies. Just for fun, I decided to take the opposite approach, a...

By David H. Levy “How would you like to go to prison?” was one of the first things that Frank Lopez asked me. My stunned expression prompted Frank to clarify: “The Federal prison off Wilmot...