Nevada Blogs

Last issue we talked about John Young’s three reasons why single planet species don’t survive. This time I will add one more reason that seems obvious to me. That is the insatiable hunger for resources that is the driving force behind every major economic system of all the large societies on the planet.We tend to ...

The May 18th meeting of the WNAS general membership opened at 7:00 at the Jack C. Davis Observatory. The meeting started with a review and approval of the last meetings minutes, followed by the treasury report by Dana Luterick.The new Jack C. Davis Observatory brochures have been completed and were distributed to everyone at the ...

First off, I would like to remind all members that Thursday, July 20th will be the next general membership meeting of the WNAS. We hope to see a good crowd and it would be great if everyone could arrive by 7:00 pm at the Observatory. The planned lecture for this meeting will be given by ...

Q: Is it possible for the general public to suggest a name for a newly discovered star? No, it is not possible for the general public to name a star. Only the International Astronomical Union is recognized as valid for naming stars. All stars bright enough to be seen with the naked eye have been ...

We the members of the Western Nevada Astronomical Society will have the pleasure of observing a rising star. Not the kind of star that is powered via core fusion, but one of our own students powered by intellect, imagination and a great desire to venture into new spatial realms. Amanda Heidermann, graduated from Carson High ...

Moon Rise at 1:21 pm

I am in the process of archiving past newsletters. They can be found under Pages in the menu on the right-hand side of the page. These archives include only the articles and not the images.Cat Boedenauer, WNCC summer assistant to Robert Collier

Check out the new link “Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics” from the website for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/scifi.htmlAndrew Fraknoi of Foothill College includes both traditional science fiction and more serious fiction that derives meaning or plot from astronomy or physics ideas.http://www.astrosociety.org/index.html

Apollo astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon, says single planet species do not survive. We have discovered that our place in the cosmos is dynamically evolving–an evolution that is bound to create some very bad events just like it has many times in the past. The worlds of our solar system are covered ...

The March 15 meeting of the WNAS general membership opened at 7:15 p.m. at the Jack C. Davis Observatory. The meeting started with a review and approval of the last meeting’s minutes, followed by the treasury report by Dana Luterick.Robert Collier announced that the new WNAS website was fully functional. We all owe a great ...