Dear Friends, For anyone North and South America and most of Europe and Africa, this Sunday night (Sept. 27) is a not-to-miss sky event: a total lunar eclipse. Better yet, for all of you in the continental U.S., this particular eclipse occurs in the evening — which means you can see most or all of […]
Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]
Space News E-mail July 11, 2015 Dear Friends, Nearly 9½ years after its launch (which I was lucky enough to see with my family in January 2006) and having traveled more than 3 billion miles from Earth, the New Horizonsspacecraft is ready to give Pluto its first close-up view! Closest approach occurs on July 14, and […]
See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture for the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures (recorded May 6, 2015 at Foothill College’s Smithwick Theater): See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture at Fiske planetarium: This year (2015) marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity. Today, this theory lies at […]
Dear Friends, Lots of great space news lately, so I’ll try to point out a few highlights: 1. Leonid Meteor Shower. Tonight (Nov. 17/18) is the night for the annual Leonid meteor shower. As usual with meteor showers, the best viewing is in the predawn hours, though if you are at a dark enough site, […]
********************************************************************* SPACE NEWS E-MAIL, March 18, 2014 ********************************************************************* Two episodes of the new Cosmos series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, have now aired. If you haven’t yet watched, I strongly encourage you to do so. Dr. Tyson is doing a great job of carrying on Carl Sagan’s legacy, and I’m sure you will enjoy it. I also […]
As usual since I don’t post these very often, there’s a lot of news! I’ll only be able to cover a few highlights, but hope you find it useful. Contents: The Latest from Mars – A Jelly Donut? First Soft Moon Landing of Millennium — Chinese Rover Story Time From Space — Books Now In […]
Note: The release below was pre-launch. The Orbital 1 mission carrying the books launched successfully on January 9, and the books will be read by the astronauts some time in the next few months. For updates on the program status, please “like” the Story Time From Space page on Facebook. And to read about Max’s […]
Publication Day! Max Goes to the Space Station and Math for Life (Updated Edition) both now available. My latest books for children and grownups both published officially today. I hope you’ll check them out. Here’s a brief bit of information: Max Goes to the Space Station: I wrote this prequel to Max Goes to the Moon […]
A lot has happened since I last posted a Space News Update, so I’ll only be able to cover a few highlights, with a focus on upcoming events. Hope you find it useful. Contents: MAVEN — Next Mission to Mars Launches in November Story Time From Space — Launch in December The NEW Fiske Planetarium […]
