Harold Meckler

We may, now more than ever, desperately need kindness, love, and compassion. I think, however, that humility should come first. A piece of genetic material just a fraction of the […]

For my own sanity, and for the simple fact that so much of the science and math of astronomy are a bit beyond my ability to fully understand and digest, […]

It was The Night of the Javelina. Earlier, my wife and I, along with our Lab mix, Jersey Girl, had hiked along the Juan Bautista de Anza trail north of […]

One of the great winter constellations is Gemini. Located just a bit north and east from Orion, it leads with the bright, mellow orange star, Pollux. Alongside, bluer, and not […]

If it’s alright, let me tell you a story. In the early part of 1963 I was an eight-year-old boy living on the rolling hills of central New Jersey. It […]

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I, like so many others, watched events unfold that I knew would forever change us. That evening I found some level of comfort, […]

The news feed on my phone is filled with headlines of comets and meteors and newly found galaxies and bursts of radio waves and so many other bits of information […]

With apologies to places like Corona, Queens in New York and Corona de Tucson just up the road, I haven’t wanted to think about the word “corona” in connection to anything for […]

On a really dark night, it’s rather easy to see an arm of the Milky Way stretch across the sky. Our spiral galaxy is estimated to hold somewhere between 100 […]