Physical Science

The 1908 Tunguska Asteroid Impact Event, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Tunguska, has been reconstructed several times over the years with no actual proven impact crater ever to be found – confusion reigning whether or not it was even…
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Televue have always been known for their fine eyepieces, the head of the company Al Nagler is a keen astronomer himself, this love of astronomy is what sets Televue apart from it’s rivals. Rather than just churning out eyepieces in…
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Mother Nature has the ability to create masterpieces in both the sky and on land, and the way that the different features of Earth lay against each other is more than breathtaking. Add the sun to any of her natural…
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Celestron are a company that excel in optical quality, due in part to their superior starbright XLT lens coatings that cover all their hand figured lenses. The coatings drastically improve light transmission meaning that even the faintest objects are as…
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Sunrises and sunsets are breathtaking experiences. They can be absolutely breathtaking in and of themselves, leaving their gazer speechless as a feeling of peace falls over them. When you add in the miracle that is a sun dog to this…
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Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, is the largest in our solar system, measuring 44,423 miles. This is 11 times larger than Earth and twice as large as all the planets combined. It looks like a striped ball in…
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We all knew that planets are round since we starting learning about them back in elementary school. It’s a basic well-known fact of today, and because it’s such a basic fact, it is rarely questioned. Planets are round because they…
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Mother Nature’s Dogs Combining the sun with ice crystals seems like an impossible task, but leaves it to Mother Nature to produce yet another beautiful image on her atmospheric canvas. One of these images is called a “sun dog” or…
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One hundred years ago, the Tunguska event, a massive explosion, occurred on June 30, 1908 in a sparsely populated area near the Podkamennaya Tuguska River of Siberia. On that day, a ball of fire exploded 6 miles above the ground,…
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Scientists are not unlike you and I when it comes to the frustration of dealing with dust, and in my way of thinking, dust is dust. Even so, science says space dust has a bigger impact on Earth than house…
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