Arif Ali Abbasi
The one thing that struck me rather unexpectedly just recently is the evident absence of Arab scientists of bygone...
Updated 29 Apr, 2017 07:07am
For some time now, we have delved into the stories of the masters of the past. No longer are Galileo, Kepler, ...
Published 28 Jan, 2017 07:05am
We will end up where we are going if we do not change direction. — Chinese Proverb, circa 6BC
Published 05 Nov, 2016 06:57am
No middle age can come into being without infancy first. The same is true for astronomy, as anything else.
Published 28 May, 2016 07:05am
Before we move further let me clarify something that should have concerned us in the past. I have purposely omitted ...
Published 07 May, 2016 06:50am
This edition will bring us to the end of letter ‘E’, so, let us get on with the day’s business before our...
Published 16 Apr, 2016 06:51am
In the last article, I spoke briefly about earthquakes. Briefly, but enough to scare you of their enormity. Any...
Published 02 Apr, 2016 07:18am
EarthquakesEarthquakes and man will never reconcile. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can be different with ...
Published 19 Mar, 2016 06:41am
Everything that exists in the universe is the fruit of Chance and Necessity.— Democritus,Circa 400 BC
Published 05 Mar, 2016 06:46am
Composition of the earthThe Earth is a rocky planet which is round (but not entirely) because the gravitational...
Published 20 Feb, 2016 07:07am
In my long years as an astronomer, I have built my own astronomical lexicon (dictionary) with a great deal of effort...
Published 06 Feb, 2016 06:51am
Didn’t I tickle your curiosity enough in my previous article to arouse you into loving this oldest of sciences...
Published 23 Jan, 2016 06:36am
So much has been said in the preambles to my earlier articles on astronomical parlance that we had better begin with...
Published 16 Jan, 2016 06:57am
Pen, and consequently the spoken words are far stronger than the sword. Often acting in tandem, they both have...
Published 19 Dec, 2015 07:14am
DEFINITIONS and introduction of each of astronomy’s everyday items (chapters) is as important as limbs are to the...
Published 05 Dec, 2015 07:05am
HAVING gone through a reasonable extent of astronomy, and a little of the history of science, we must move on....
Published 14 Nov, 2015 07:05am
“Those who deserve monuments do not need them.”WE apply ourselves to scrapping into astronomy, astrophysics and...
Published 31 Oct, 2015 06:48am
HELLO my young friends, we have come a long way into understanding the deep halo of astronomy/astrophysics. Let us...
Published 10 Oct, 2015 07:05am
THIS time around we shall not consume much time and space to preamble and instead go straight to the remaining part...
Published 19 Sep, 2015 07:05am
WE shall begin from where we left off. The Big Crunch, interesting as it was, it sent us spinning through the roof!...
Published 05 Sep, 2015 07:05am
