Harold Meckler

There’s an awful lot of astronomy to be learned from the Hunter and his loyal Big Dog. If you’re thinking of a place to delve into the cosmos, this is it.

It’s not always best to put too much faith in any one thing, but this is what I’m doing with the Webb.

This month there is a good chance to see, with our own eyes, one object in the sky that is not in our galaxy.

“I see the rings!” yelled my friend. Even in the darkness his face was glowing, in awe of something he’d seen countless times in magazines, but never through a telescope.

With all the laws that govern so much, it is still pure chance – chaos – that gives us four and not five Galilean moons.

We’re at our best when we find a way to feed the hungry and also feed our imagination. Both are necessities.

Why look to the heavens with so much trouble right here on Earth?

On a recent hike, while looking out for snakes and occasionally losing all sense of time and place, my thoughts settled on the endless examples of the cycles of life we find all around us. Huge trees, once spectacular, were now broken and decaying, giving life to countless organisms. Bird nests reminded me that, for […]

What’s your sign? I’m born under Sagittarius, the Archer. December. Interestingly, Sagittarius is actually part of our summer sky, rising in the southeast in late May. It is one of the twelve members of the zodiac, the group of constellations that is not only important in astronomy, but also integral to those who follow astrology. […]