Depending on your children’s ages and what they’re learning at school, they may not understand total solar eclipses and what makes them such historic events. Don’t worry—you don’t have to be a teacher to explain a total solar eclipse to your kids. A great way to explain such an ...
For those who can't get their hands on a pair of eclipse glasses, there is an alternative to the fancy specs: a DIY projection box. Child looks through a pinhole made from a cereal box to view the solar eclipse along the waterfront near the Children's Museum in Boston, Aug. 21...
Lunar eclipses can only happen when the moon is directly opposite to the sun in our Earthly sky at the time of the full moon. But we don't get a lunar eclipse every month — that is, at every full moon. The reason for this is simple: the moon's orbit is inclined to the Earth'...
As an astrologer, if I see that transit Pluto is about to square, conjoin, or oppose a female's Venus, Mars, sun, or Moon, I explain that she'll be facing a cycle that makes her more vulnerable to an unwarranted attack. Whenever I read about the beautiful young high school or ...
How to safely view an eclipse Barcelona, Spain - March 20,2015. Children wearing especial protective tinted glasses watching the solar eclipse next to the Barceloneta beach. Rosmi Duaso, Getty Images Safety is crucial when viewing an eclipse. A total solar eclipse is one of the most stunning ...
Copernicus, of Poland, felt the Ptolemaic view of the planets traveling in circular orbits around the Earth was over-complicated with many smaller circles, epicycles, needed to explain the intermittent retrograde motion of the planets (in which they appear to move in the opposite direction of the...
It is the survival of the Greek interpretation of Ma'at over the Kemites' that may explain why schoolchildren learn that the Greeks provided the basis for our modern world. Read about some other ideas about why the Kemites have been banished to antiquity on the next page. Western History ...
current life was entwined with the heavens and they looked for any signs that might help them. Zhang often used the analogy of an egg to explain the Earth’s relation to the stars. He wrote that the Earth was like the yoke of an egg. That the sky was large and the earth was small...
the eclipse in Japan via a friend’s shared sites on Google reader. Remember, don’t look straight at the sun or you’ll end up likeRadioactive Man. Looking straight at rain clouds, on the other hand, will do nothing to you but may ruin the day of small children with giant ...
In a recent issue of theWall Street Journal(Sept. 10, 2010), physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow try to explain “Why God Did Not Create the Universe.” I would argue that, more than half a century ago, C. S. Lewis had already prefuted the central claims of Hawking and ...