Portfolio

Here’s a selection of published articles and podcasts.  Enjoy!

The Watch:
Ask a scientist: is there a galactic alignment on December 21?

EarthSky:

What are coronal mass ejections?
Wolf-Rayets are the most massive and brightest stars known
What lives between the stars?
What is retrograde motion?
Spiral arms found inside an elliptical galaxy
Why does the sun shine?
What are elliptical galaxies?
What is a black hole?
What is the apogalacticon?
What is the Zodiac?
The Yarkovsky effect: Pushing asteroids around with sunlight
X-rays reveal the violent side of the universe
White dwarfs are the cores of dead stars
How VLBI reveals the universe in amazing detail
ULIRGs: Hotbeds of star formation as galaxies collide
What is sidereal time?
What is a redshift?
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Dawn spacecraft reveals landscapes of Vesta
New planet found in distant solar system by its tug on another world
Record-breaking nine planets orbiting a nearby star
Six galaxies caught in the act of capturing star ingredients
What is the ecliptic?
A supernova in M95
What is a light-year?
Citizen scientists uncover a galaxy of bubbles

Universe Today:

Dust shells seen for the first time around dying stars

National Center for Atmospheric Research:

Extracting clues from solar cavities

365 Days of Astronomy Podcast:

Astronomy Word of the Week: Parsec
Astronomy Word of the Week: CME
Astronomy Word of the Week: Retrograde
Astronomy Word of the Week: ISM
Astronomy Word of the Week: Helioseismology
Astronomy Word of the Week: GRB
Astronomy Word of the Week: Fusion
Astronomy Word of the Week: Elliptical
Astronomy Word of the Weed: Cepheid
Astronomy Word of the Week: Black hole
Astronomy Word of the Week: Apogalacticon
Astronomy Word of the Week: Zodiac
Astronomy Word of the Week: Yarkovsky
Astronomy Word of the Week: X-ray
Astronomy Word of the Week: White dwarf
Astronomy Word of the Week: VLBI
Astronomy Word of the Week: ULIRG
Astronomy Word of the Week: Trojan
Astronomy Word of the Week: Sidereal
Astronomy Word of the Week: Redshift
Transit of Venus
Astronomy Word of the Week: Quasar
Astronomy Word of the Week: Parallax
Astronomy Word of the Week: Obliquity
Astronomy Word of the Week: Nova 
Astronomy Word of the Week: Meridian
Astronomy Word of the Week: Light-year
Astronomy Word of the Week: Kuiper
Astronomy Word of the Week: Jansky
Astronomy Word of the Week: Inflation
Astronomy Word of the Week: Heliopause
Astronomy Word of the Week: Globular
Astronomy Word of the Week: Fraunhofer
Astronomy Word of the Week: Ecliptic
Astronomy Word of the Week: Declination
Astronomy Word of the Week: Constellation
Astronomy Word of the Week: Barycenter
Astronomy Word of the Week: Aberration
150 Years of Exoplanets
The Search for Distant Worlds
Perseids Meteor Shower
Looking Towards the Center of the Galaxy
Drifting through the Zodiac
Unlikely Twins in Gemini
Life and Death in Orion
The North Star