Astronomy Minute

A brief description of how the motion of the Moon around the Earth, the Earth around the Sun, the Sun around the center of our galaxy, and the motion of the galaxy itself are like clockwork.

A brief description of Johannes Kepler's main contributions to astronomy. 

A brief description of Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy.

A brief description of the basic contributions Nicolaus Copernicus made to the science of astronomy.

A brief description of the techniques we use to detect the presence of planets orbiting around other stars besides the Sun. These techniques are known as Transit Photometry and Doppler Spectroscopy.

A brief description of the definition of a Bell Curve - also known as a Normal Distribution and a Gaussian Distribution; it is very important in the fields of statistics and probability.

A brief description of Right Ascension and Declination and how they are used to locate objects in the sky.

A brief description of what causes the phases of the Earth's Moon. An animation/movie linked off of the web page helps to explain the podcast.

A brief description of what doesn't cause the seasons and what we actually believe does cause them. There is also a graphic linked off the web page that helps explain this episode.

A brief description of the difference between precision and accuracy in astronomy.