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Kevin Krisciunas


krisciunas@physics.tamu.edu

Texas A & M University
Department of Physics
4242 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4242
Phone: 979-845-7018


Below is the night sky at Cerro Tololo, including the Galactic plane and the zodiacal light, which is sunlight scattered off interplanetary dust between the Earth and the Sun. (Image by Roger Smith.)

Physics 306 (Basic Astronomy), Spring 2008

Right Ascension and Declination of the Sun for 2008

Right Ascension and Declination of the Moon for 2008

The Moon's motion in the horizon coordinate system

Meeting in Cairo, plus images from there and Paris (April 2008)

Gnomon experiments

Sunsets in La Serena, Chile

Some reasons why climate changes on Earth

The cosmological distance ladder

The constellation song

The Monty Python galaxy song

The accelerating universe

Look-back time, the age of the universe, and the case for a positive cosmological constant (an article published in 1993 in the Journal of the RAS of Canada).

Astronomy research at Texas A&M

Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae

How long do astronomers live?

Sky & Telescope name index

Some publications...

This is an image of the burn-up of a Space Shuttle fuel tank, just south of the Big Island. It was taken at the 9200-ft level of Mauna Kea by William Albrecht in April of 1984. The view is to the southeast.

Last modified on 02 June 2008.

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