Gordon Moyer

The Celestial SolitaireGordon Moyer, Rittenhouse Astronomical SocietyA THOUSAND miles off the east coast of Madagascar, a barren range of hills rises from the Indian Ocean. It is the island of Rodrigues, which played a small but curious role in the history of two sciences: astronomy and...

The Milky Way as depicted by Knut Lundmark, from photographs by Solon I. Bailey and Frank E. Ross. This version has been redrawn by Martin and Tatjana Keskiila. It shows the entire Milky Way, with the direction to the galactic center in the middle of the map. The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds...

Moussaka, Retsina, and the lAUSunset along the bustling docks of Patras, the chief seaport on the west coast of Greece. Members of the International Astronomical Union met at the University of Patras for 10 days this past August.Every three years the familygathers, professional astronomers from...