Astronomy This Week: Archive

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Doug Mack has been teaching elementary school since 1975, and has taught a variety of subjects, including social studies and reading improvement. In 1993, after 8 years teaching in the special education department, he began teaching middle school science, which he hopes to be doing when he retires in 2015.

This column is printed by special arrangement with Doug and the Hometown Journal in Flora, IL.

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Date	Article Name
05/08/2012	Space Through the Eyes of Sci-Fi
05/01/2012	The (Night) Sky's the Thing
04/17/2012	Venus
04/10/2012	First Rock from the Sun - Part 2
04/03/2012	First Rock from the Sun
03/27/2012	Wernher von Braun - Part 2
03/20/2012	Wernher von Braun
03/13/2012	What does the “c” stand for in E=mc2?
03/06/2012	I've given her all she's got, Captain!
02/28/2012	Watching the ISS
02/21/2012	UFOs
02/14/2012	Perseus Star Clusters
01/24/2012	Galaxies: Part II
01/17/2012	The Milky Way
01/10/2012	Percival Lowell
01/03/2012	Eridanus
12/28/2011	Stranger in a Strange Sky
12/20/2011	The Stars at Night
12/13/2011	53 cm Microgravity
12/06/2011	Satelliti di Giove
11/29/2011	Cosmica Sidera
11/22/2011	Free Fallin'
11/15/2011	Gravity: Part 2
11/08/2011	Gravity: Part 1
11/01/2011	All Saints Day
10/25/2011	New Horizons
10/18/2011	My Very Educated Mother Just Served...
10/11/2011	Dear NASA
10/04/2011	Neptune: Part 2
09/27/2011	Neptune: Part 1
09/20/2011	Pink Moons
08/23/2011	The Crab Nubula
07/26/2011	Meteors
07/19/2011	Sagittarius
07/12/2011	The Scorpion
07/08/2011	Comets
06/29/2011	Magnetic Bubbles and a Dead Rover
06/22/2011	Halley's Comets
06/15/2011	Comets
05/31/2011	Kepler: Part Two – Circles to Ellipses
05/24/2011	Johann Kepler
05/18/2011	Sol
05/10/2011	Uncle Art and the Moon
05/03/2011	Dawn: Next Stop, Vesta
04/26/2011	Ceres
04/19/2011	Boötes, the Ploughman
04/05/2011	20cm Spirit and Opportunity
03/30/2011	Galileo, Lentils and Telescopes
03/22/2011	Where No One Has Gone Before
03/15/2011	Leo the Lion
03/08/2011	Out Past The Edges
03/01/2011	Auroras: 102
02/22/2011	Auroras: 101
02/15/2011	The Brothers Gemini: Castor and Pollux
02/08/2011	Full Moon
12/28/2010	Orion
11/23/2010	The Summer Triangle
11/16/2010	Celestial Meanderings