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Still, as your question suggests, economists across the ideological spectrum say the overall bill would hurt, in part because ...
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to ...
Since the solstice occurs so late at night Philly time, is the longest day the 20th or the 21st? The answer: Both. The ...
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...
Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist that Astronomy magazine dubbed "Earth's premiere authority on solar eclipses," died Sunday, June 1, at his home in Portal, Arizona. He was 71 years old.
On April 15, many of us in the eclipse community received this message from Fred Espenak, the man who for years was affectionately referred to as Mr. Eclipse: Dear Friends.
(NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Fred Espenak/Scott Sutherland) As the Moon orbits around the Earth, it follows an elliptical path.
In 1970 and with a fresh driver’s license, teenage Fred Espenak persuaded his parents to let him drive 600 miles to a small North Carolina town to stare at the sky. On a grassy field behind a ...
Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a progressive lung disease. The former NASA astrophysicist is renowned for ...
According to retired NASA scientist Fred Espenak's website, Astropixels, the April 12-13 Apogee Moon is 406,006 kilometres away at that time. That is the farthest, and thus smallest Full Moon in ...
The stamp featuring an images taken by retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak of total solar and Moon which was revealed by body heat. (Image: USPS/Espenak) ...