Links for those interested in seeing Jeff’s recent TV interviews and listening to podcast interviews: WEHT -Evansville, IN: Tri-state area readies for total solar eclipse. Evansville, IN – 14News: One year to total eclipse; press conference with astronomer/educator Jeffrey Bennett. Denver Ch. 2 (9/13/22): Boulder astrophysicist and author has a new book that’s all about […]
Sept. 14, 2022 Dear Friends: Today is 13 months to the day before the next great USA solar eclipse — the annular eclipse of Oct. 14, 2023. It is also (not coincidentally) the publication day of my new book, Totality! An Eclipse Guide in Rhyme and Science. It therefore seems a good time for a […]
June 21, 2022 Dear Friends: Happy June Solstice! It’s the longest daylight of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and shortest for the Southern, but wherever you live (except far north where the sky remains bright all night at this time of year), you can enjoy a great sight this week in the early morning […]
May 12, 2022 Dear Friends: There’s been lots of exciting space news, starting with today’s announcement that the Event Horizon Telescope has successfully made the first image of the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy: You can read the press release about the black hole image here. Meanwhile, for today’s […]
Dec. 21, 2021 Happy December solstice today! The big space news item is the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), currently scheduled for Friday (Dec. 24), 7:20am EST. This is a big deal: JWST is a $10 billion instrument with the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe in many ways. […]
April 12, 2021 Events this week! Dear Friends: The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is now scheduled for its first test flight on Thursday: Go to this NASA page to find the updated exact time, to watch online, and to learn more about Ingenuity. Also this week (and next), I’ll be offering several free, online presentations for […]
January 22, 2021 Join Us Tuesday for a Live Event from the International Space Station! Dear Friends: Exciting news, especially for teachers and those of you with kids: Our previously postponed event for Story Time From Space will be happening this coming Tuesday, Jan. 26. We’ll have a live reading from the International Space Station (ISS) […]
Please see this post on Medium. I’ve also made a video version of that you can see at this Youtube link.
Please also see this post as published on Medium. Imagine you could send a single short message through time to anyone who has ever lived, telling them one modern fact that would give them hope for the future of humanity. What message would you send? I don’t think you could find anything more powerful than […]
Please also see this post as published on Medium. If you follow news about climate science and politics, you’ve probably heard of William Happer, who is one of the forces behind the Trump Administrations plans to go forward with a panel to “investigate” whether global warming really poses the threats claimed by most scientists; he […]
