How bad is your astronomy?

April 6, 2003 on 11:47 pm | In Ad Rem | Comments Off

I encourage you all to peruse Phil Plait’s website Bad Astronomy. This is an excellent site reteaching you what you thought you knew, but actually didn’t. He gives one a great baseline for learning more serious astronomy. The site is a very interesting read, and he even has a book, which is even better. He explains everything from how the sun appears larger on the horizon, through eggs standing on their end in the equinox, to dissecting Hollywood