Physical Science

Have you ever had a UFO encounter?That is something many people often ponder, but discard it as soon as the thought enters their mind. Most people either think it is too absurd or they don’t want to spend the time…
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A solar eclipse takes place when the moon is between the earth and the sun. Light from the sun is partly or fully blocked by the moon. Between two and five solar eclipses occur somewhere on earth each year. Up…
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Each year it can be expected to see many meteor showers, although some years due to other cosmic factors, viewing is better than others. Here is a guide to the best times to see meteor showers in 2010: On April…
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There are so many wonderful things to do in spring equinox that will keep your children busy but also having great fun, being super creative, inventive, and very imaginative. The spring equinox is a season of mixed weather with rain…
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Since the Stone Age, people have observed the path of the sun across the sky. They noticed that the sun rises and sets in a different place each day and climbs higher in the sky in the warmer months. With…
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A sunspot is an irregular and temporary area on the sun’s visible surface which appears dark against the yellow of the sun. Although they seem small in comparison to the sun, the average sunspot is twice the size of our…
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Ostara. When I hear this word it fills me with the sense of spring. Birds singing, light breezes blowing through newly budding trees, plants and flowers beginning to grow again after the frozen winter. Ostara is also known as Eostre…
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Viewing an eclipse is a breathtaking event indeed. Our ancestors looked upon them in wonder and amazement – viewing them as omens and even worshiping them. Having focused their lives around the sun and moon for crop production, important ceremonies,…
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Solar astronomy is quite simply the study of our sun. While astronomy might reasonably be called the study of the night skies, since the dawn of the earliest civilizations until only relatively recently, solar astronomy has been strictly a daytime…
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Sunspots are comparatively dark, irregularly shaped areas that appear on the visible surface of the sun, called its photosphere, for varied amounts of time. They can form and remain for just a few hours or for anywhere up to a…
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