Along with the summer Perseids, the Geminids are one of the great meteor showers that offer a shooting star experience also to less experienced observers. Their maximum of up to 150 shooting stars per hour in mid-December coincides with the waxing ...

What does it mean when we say someone has a solid basic knowledge of astronomy? This is the question that inspired the project Big Ideas in Astronomy: A Proposed Definition of Astronomy Literacy, which resulted in a booklet of eleven “Big Ideas”, pub ...