Prof. Barton Pritzl

02/23/2023

Creation seems to always have a few surprises for us!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.”

12/01/2022

11/07/2022

A total lunar eclipse is taking place early on November 8th. In Oshkosh the partial eclipse begins around 3:09 am with the total lunar eclipse starting around 4:16 am and ending around 5:40 am. The Moon will turn a reddish color during totality.

Total lunar eclipse on 7–8 November 2022: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

10/22/2022

Certainly an unexpected result!

A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: the space rock has grown two tails.

09/26/2022

Busy day! Tonight Jupiter is in an uncommon alignment where it is at the closest part of its orbit about the Sun and also at the closest to the Earth.

Sept. 26 marks an unmissable chance to view the massive planet Jupiter, whose opposition and perigee very rarely coincide

09/26/2022

The impact will be happening shortly this evening (September 26th). If you are not familiar with this mission, it will test the deflection of an asteroid via impact.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has one single instrument onboard – the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation, aka...

07/25/2022

I had the pleasure of talking about the James Webb Space Telescope images with my grade school friend, Jonathan Krause. He asked great questions and helped make me feel comfortable on his WHBY radio program. The clip starts around the 23:00 minute mark.

Jonathan Krause is joined by Co-Host Tommy Clifford, Aisha Morales of Action 2 News This Morning, an

07/12/2022

First stunning images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope!

The wait is finally over — for the photos and for all the research that will follow.

07/11/2022

First James Webb Space Telescope image! More to come tomorrow!

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

06/21/2022

Happy Summer Solstice to those in the northern hemisphere!