Author: Robert Marx

Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!

The reviews are in: Beetlejuice, the movie and sequel – meh.  Betelgeuse the star – spectacular!  With the coming of the winter months, we will

The Strike Zone

Last month’s column discussed the properties of neutrinos. Despite their tiny mass and elusive nature (they pass through everything), detecting them is important; that is the

Trillions and Trillions

At the instant that you read this, billions of neutrinos are passing through your body. They are not electromagnetic waves. They are real particles: just

I Must Go Down to the Seas Again…

When the poet, John Masefield, wrote this in 1902, the world had no idea that the seas in question might not be on earth. We

Actio Nova – August 2024

Cosmic Optometry In 1917 Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity I states that a mass, the size of our sun, measurably warps space and

StarNews — June 2024

Avoidance Behavior On any clear summer night, we can look up and see a beautiful array of stars scattered across the sky. The heavens seem dense

Astral Insights May 2024

A Cepheid Variable and a Supernova 1A walk into a bar… The cosmos, as we now know, is quite lively and far from static.  Down

Voyagers 1 and 2: Where are they now?

These are the most distant objects ever constructed by humans!   In case you missed it, Voyager 1 and 2, both launched in 1977, are