by Joseph A'Hearn | Aug 28, 2016 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Featured, Science & Faith
Today, August 28, the Catholic Church ordinarily celebrates St. Augustine’s feast day. This year, however, his feast is liturgically overshadowed since it fell on a Sunday. Nevertheless, it’s still an appropriate occasion to recall the contributions...
by Joseph A'Hearn | Jun 23, 2016 | Astronomy, News, Observational Astronomy, Outreach
NASA and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have teamed up and have brought the world an initiative called SERVIR. Using satellite images of the Earth and other technology, SERVIR works with organizations in developing countries to forecast climate...
by Joseph A'Hearn | Jun 9, 2016 | Astronomy, Observational Astronomy, Outreach
Last night I had the privilege of speaking about astronomy to the boys at Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. After telling them a bit about myself, I narrated the story of the cosmological revolutions of the past century, answering the question...
by Joseph A'Hearn | Mar 15, 2016 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Featured, Science & Faith
This image is a three-color composite of the Chandra Deep Field South. Take a moment just to look at it in wonder. Pretty much every object in the photo is a galaxy, containing billions of stars. The area of space in this photo takes up only one part in 375,000 of...
by Joseph A'Hearn | Mar 10, 2016 | Astronomy, Observational Astronomy, Outreach
Last weekend I had the opportunity to travel up with the Astronomical Society of the University of Illinois and visit the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Yerkes Observatory has a few telescopes, including the world’s...
by Joseph A'Hearn | Feb 4, 2016 | Astronomy, News
A few weeks ago, Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin, distinguished researchers at Caltech, announced that there is probably another planet lurking in the outer realms of our solar system. Brown and Batygin were looking for an explanation for the alignment of the orbits...
