Celebrating the Rosetta Asteroid Mission
Handmade 3D clay sculpture of comet 67P on a sheet of black paper After a 10 year journey, Europe's Rosetta space probe has reached it destination to Comet 67P in deep space. It was discovered by two Ukranians, Klim Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko. In November this year plans are to drop a lander onto the surface of the comet. The probe and lander are named after two ancient Egyptian inscribed stones, Rosetta (Probe) and Philae (Lander). Intense study of the comet utilizing the efforts of the Rosetta mission will yield further information on our understanding of the creation...
Flying Glow-in-the-Dark Comet
"Comets giveth, and comets taketh away." Carl Sagan Glow-in-the-Dark Flying Comet It was 1997 when I first caught sight of the Hale-Bopp comet. This historic moment was my very first view of a comet. It was appropriately named "The Great Comet of 1997" due to its exceptional brightness and naked eye visibility. Appearing perpetually suspended in the night sky, its glowing coma and silvery white tail seemed to spread out over the eons of space and time to my unbelieving eyes. This ubiquitous beauty made an appearance everywhere around the globe in 1997-1998. It was the best show on Earth....
Celebrate Earth Day
Papier Mache Earth Globe Windsock Global Astronomy Month AstroCrafts Earth Globe Windsock Created by Kathleen Horner "Nothing is more powerful than the collective action of a billion people" Green Cities Campaign It's Global Astronomy Month here at Astronomers Without Borders and what better way to celebrate than to get in touch with our home planet, Earth, the little blue marble suspended in space in perfect balance. April is going to be an exciting month for all of us in the global community with Astronomers Without Borders Global Astronomy Month offering exciting and unique astronomy-related programs for everyone plus it...
AstroCrafts: How to Create Constellation Coasters
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY KATHLEEN HORNER BASED ON A CONCEPT BY 'ALMOST MAKES PERFECT' One thing we all have in common here at Astronomers Without Borders is that we delight in gazing at the constellations in the night sky. By that I mean a lost in ourselves kind of feeling when we look up at that rich star sky with a yearning to reach out, grab a piece of it and bring it on home. Since time immemorial humans have been drawn to the beauty and wonder of the night sky. The ancients in their fascination with prominent stars and...
AstroCrafts: Glitter Milky Way Galaxy Art
"The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world." - Joseph Gordon-Levitt Glitter Art, The Milky Way Barred Spiral Galaxy From the year 1610 when Galileo Galilei first observed the Milky Way band of light into individual stars with the aid of his telescope, the Milky Way has continued to mesmerize Earthlings. As it becomes less of an enigma from that...
