Eclipses vs. Occultations…Let’s Keep Them Separate

We astronomers are a funny lot. We tend to use words in weird ways. We like to use one word, like color, to describe any of several different concepts and thereby become the source of misconceptions, like saying Sun is a yellow star when we know that its actually cottony white to the eyes of […]

Learning Critical Thinking Through Astronomy, Week 12

I’m finally getting a bit ahead this week. This week is all about lunar illumination and Activity0303. This activity is interesting in that students frequently change the questions on the activity to match what they want to be asked rather than what I’m asking them. It’s quite predictable, which could possibly mean my questions are […]