Thoughts on Being at the Center of Everything

I’m a big fan of astronomer Phil Plait’s “Bad Astronomy” blog. Plait opens his April 1st article (no joke) titled […]

How big is the Solar System?

If you haven’t seen this 7 minute movie on the scale of the universe (which was just released on September […]

I don’t know if you ever stopped to ask yourself, “What would the original ‘Cosmos’ have been like if Carl […]

On Sunday night, 34 years after the debut of the immortal Carl Sagan miniseries “Cosmos” on PBS, viewers were treated […]

Twenty-three years ago the Voyager space probe gave us the iconic image of earth as a pale blue dot, an […]