How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do astronomers make sense out of the vastness of space? How do they study things so far away? Today Phil talks about distances, going ...

Astronomy is weird. Everything we study is really, really far away. So far away really, that for most of history we didn’t know how far away they were. It was impossible to measure. But then some ...

Throughout the year, as Earth progresses through its orbit around the sun, one can witness stars in the night sky rise and set at different times. It’s an example of an astronomical cycle visible to ...

One of my favorite things to do as a science communicator is melt peoples’ brains *. There isn’t a better playing field for that than cosmology, the study of the origin, structure, and fate of the ...