Category Archives: Sidereal Times

Translating Faust: Science, Fate, and Free Will

Posted on November 4, 2025 by ST Editors

by John Church As a chemistry major planning to go to graduate school, I took four years of German.  In my final year we read Goethe’s masterpiece “Faust,” based on the legend of a Doctor Faust who sold his soul … Continue reading →

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Are Velocity calculations from Spectral Measurements creating the Hubble Tension and Dark Energy theories?

Posted on November 4, 2025 by ST Editors

by William H. Davis jr. Astronomers collect and use spectral shift data to estimate the velocity of objects or photon emitters (E) beyond Earth. This spectral data is one of the most important and often the only tool used to … Continue reading →

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The case for multi-messenger astronomy

Posted on November 4, 2025 by ST Editors

by S. Prasad Ganti In the beginning, there was only visible light astronomy which meant viewing distant objects in space using our naked eye or with the help of an optical telescope. Gradually things changed and we started doing astronomy … Continue reading →

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Snippets

Posted on November 4, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan George F. Smoot, Who Showed How the Cosmos Began, Is Dead at 80 George F. Smoot, an American physicist and Nobel laureate who helped elucidate the story of cosmic creation, providing evidence of what … Continue reading →

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From The Director

Posted on October 5, 2025 by ST Editors

by Rex Parker, PhD director@princetonastronomy.org October 14, 2025 Meeting on Campus.  I look forward to seeing you for our monthly meeting Oct 14 at Peyton Hall of Astrophysics.  Our guest speaker will be Becka Phillipson, Asst Prof in Physics at … Continue reading →

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From The Program Chair

Posted on October 5, 2025 by ST Editors

by Victor Davis, Program Chair He Who Lives in Harmony with Himself Lives in Harmony with the UniverseMarcus Aurelius Smooth Moves: Why Strain Wave Mounts are Taking OverThe October, 2025 meeting of the AAAP will take place in Peyton Hall … Continue reading →

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