Cosmos Portal: Disciplines & Professions
These are the main disciplines of astronomy and space sciences.
Here you will find articles, news and blogs listed by the topic(s) that pertain to them.
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Featured Blog Post
The Night Sky: August 2010
The Night Sky in August 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Widener University Moon’s Phases in Month New Moon on the...
Featured Resource
Are We Alone? Podcast - Scoping Out Astronomy
Are We Alone? podcast A loud radio hiss is coming from the cosmos. Is it the swan song of the first giant stars of the universe? Find out from stargazers attending the American Astronomical Society meeting in California... the brightest flash in the...
Articles
Annotated Timeline Dates extend to 2005; those marked "c." are approximate. - Dates in red are from the basic ...- Glossary Table of Contents Click on the item whose definition you want (The anchor-links presently point to Ph...
Introduction As one of the first steps towards a coherent theory of galaxy evolution, the American astronomer ...
Introduction Trying to push deeper into the universe, astronomers have developed a number of new techniques fo...
Introduction In mechanics, the virial theorem provides a general equation relating the average over time of th...
Introduction Within the magnetosphere there are several distinct populations of neutral particles and plasmas ...
Unit Prefixes Commonly Used in Astronomy Standard prefixes for the SI (International Standard) units of measu...
Blog Posts
The Night Sky in July 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University Moons P...
The Night Sky in June 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University Moons...
The Night Sky in May 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University Moons ...
The Night Sky in April 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University Moons ...
The Night Sky in March 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University Moons ...
The Night Sky in February 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics Astronomy, Widener University M...
window.onerror=function(){return true;}; The Night Sky in January 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of...
News Articles
Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy (Apr. 22, 2009) Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radi...
LONDON (Feb. 8, 2010) Some of the major ingredients for life are present on one of Saturns moons, according t...
American Physical Society (Aug. 24, 2009) Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity ...
Summary (Apr 03, 2009): Using a novel image-processing technique, astronomers have discovered a new extrasolar...
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, "100 Hours of Astronomy," is on track to be the ...
USGS Astrogeology news, features, and updates: ...
NASA Science News (Jan. 8, 2009): When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Co...
Events
A half-century ago, astronomers began trying to eavesdrop for radio messages from nearby star systems. This wa...
Resources
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), established 1899, is the major organization of professional astrono...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) was founded in 1889 by a group of Northern California profession...
"Around the World in 80 Telescopes" was a unique live 24-hour webcast, held April 3-4, 2009, that visited some...
Dana S. Balser Associate Scientist National Radio Astronomy Observatory NRAO Headquarters 520 Edgemont Road Ch...
Rudolph E. (Rudy) Schild, Ph.D. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Division of Optical and Infrared A...
T. Joseph W. Lazio, Ph.D. Radio Astronomer U.S. Naval Observatory Lab 4555 Overlook Ave., SW Washington, DC, U...
Richard Conn Henry, Ph.D. Director, MSGC Professor, JHU Deptartment of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins...
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