By David H. Levy with Roy L. Bishop Gravity is one of the most fundamental things in physics. Everything and everyone has gravity. The more massive something is, the more gravity it has...
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Skyward – February 2024
Skyward This month I have a story to tell. A few nights ago two close friends from Plattsburgh, Ed Guenther and Wendy Gordon...
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Skyward for January 2024
Skyward: Star Gazing This month let us explore one of the seminal galaxies in the night sky, NGC 253, Caroline Herschel’s galaxy...
Read MorePons-Brooks: A comet for the centuries
When David Rossetter and I began our observing session at the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association’s Chiricahua Astronomy Complex...
Read MoreMeteors Scratch the Sky
Despite what you read online, it is possible to think of meteor watching as one of the most boring things you can do with the...
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Skyward: Faint fuzzies
By David H. Levy The night before last, a comet named Palomar (actually known as C (for comet)/ 2020 T2 Palomar) was gliding near one of the most beautiful clusters of stars in the entire...
Skyward: May 2021
By David H. Levy A long time ago, while I was writing my biography of Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, I learned from him that he had discovered other objects during his long search...
Skyward for April 2021
By David H. Levy January 6, 2021 – Just one day after the Earth passed its closest point to the Sun in its orbit, its perihelion, the American Astronomical Society was having its...
Skyward: Stars are People Too
By David H. Levy In last month’s Skyward, I included that four-word phrase, but the first time I used it was actually in an article about the life of the star Betelgeuse, for Astronomy...
Skyward: Orion in Winter
By David H. Levy As twilight deepens these evenings, Orion is just clearing the eastern horizon. Robert Frost wrote eloquently in his famous poem “The Star Splitter, “You know Orion always...
Skyward: January 2021
By David H. Levy Said the night wind to the little lamb:“Do you see what I see?Way up in the sky, little lambDo you see what I see?A star, a star, dancing in the nightWith a tail as...
Skyward: The long summer of 2020
By David H. Levy When Earth crossed the summer solstice on June 21, 2020, we were all mired in the midst of the most serious pandemic in more than a century. Summer is the most important...
Skyward: Hello, Bennu!
By David H. Levy Not long ago OSIRIS-REx, a spacecraft sponsored by the University of Arizona and flown by NASA, gently touched the surface of asteroid No. 101955, an asteroid named Bennu...
Looking Up in Tucson
By Rob Halberg Southern Arizona is called, “The Astronomy Capital of the World” and it is easy to see why. Look up and you can see thousands of stars and several planets, all with the naked...