PRESENTER Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation Is there a particularly “Jesuit” form of science? From Acosta’s work in the […]
The Waning Crescent Moon appears 8° from Venus in the eastern predawn sky.
Mars and Jupiter appear less than 1° apart in the eastern predawn sky
Shavuot (listen (help·info)), or Shavuos (listen (help·info)) in some Ashkenazi usage (Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת, Šāḇūʿōṯ, lit. "Weeks"), commonly known in English as the Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (in the 21st cenutury, it […]
Feast of the Holy Trinity, also called Trinity Sunday, Christian feast in honour of the Trinity, celebrated in Western liturgical churches on the Sunday following Pentecost (the 50th day after Easter). - britannica.com
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed two classes of engine, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines. Difference engines are so called because of the mathematical principle on which they are based, […]
Join us for our Full Moon Meetup! Our guest will be Prof. Stephen Barr, founder & president of the Society of Catholic Scientists!
On this day, the Moon will be at its most distant point from Earth in its orbit.
Mars Pathfinder was launched December 4, 1996 and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997.
Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to perigee, the Moon’s closest point to Earth in its orbit – then 2 weeks later, to apogee, its most distant point from Earth.
