by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Feb 19, 2020 | Astronomy, Latest, News
Fr. George Coyne, SJ, passed away on February 14, 2020. He was an astrophysicist, a priest, the former director of the Vatican Observatory, and a “remarkable man.” His life and contributions are celebrated in moving tributes from the Vatican Observatory website and...
by Guest Writer | Feb 10, 2020 | Astronomy, Guest Blogs, Latest, Science, Reason & Faith
Do faith and science operate in completely separate, non-overlapping realms? In the first of a series of articles for Thinking Faith, Vatican Astronomer, Guy Consolmagno SJ, explores how science works, how scientists work, and the place that faith has in...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Feb 5, 2020 | Astronomy, Latest, News
The last week of January was a historic week for space news. Jan. 30 marked the end of the mission assigned to NASA’s Spitzer Space telescope. Jan. 31 marked another historic space event: the 62nd anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1, the very first satellite...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Nov 4, 2019 | Astronomy, Faithful Scientists, Latest
David H. Levy’s bio on the Vatican Observatory website declares that he is “one of the most successful comet discoverers in history.” This is no idle boast. It continues: “He has discovered 22 comets, nine of them using his own backyard telescopes. With Eugene and...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Oct 25, 2019 | Astronomy, Discoveries & Breakthroughs, Latest
Appearing once again in the morning sky, Mars is visible just before sunrise from October to December. While this might be of interest to stargazers and early risers, Mars has also appeared in the news with startling regularity. In April of 2019, NASA’s Insight lander...
by Guest Writer | Oct 7, 2019 | Astronomy, Guest Blogs, Latest, Science, Reason & Faith
I once thought that the Copernican Revolution was about the modern scientific view of the universe displacing the old Earth-centered view. Consider Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2014 re-make of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” TV series, with its animated sequence about Giordano Bruno...
