J. K. Rowling drew upon star lore to name some of her characters, and this seems like a great excuse to talk about a few of the sky's wonders.
Harry Potter Astronomy
Weeping Weeping Willow
As I pass under their canopy, cool air braces me and a spritz of moisture douses my face.
Crash Landing
He fired the landing rockets and began to deploy the landing gear, but too late.
What a space week!
Ultima Thule is the first known "contact binary" small body in the solar system.
Habitability of planets in red dwarf systems
KM dwarfs are excellent places to search for life. The minute we build starships, we should stuff a few geo-astro-biologists on board and find out more.
Fakery Detector
... sorting truth from fiction takes mental work and time. Learning will occur.
Kin to the stars.
"Spectroscopy," I might answer.
"Huh?" one might reasonably reply.
Where’s Galahad?
The universe is all we can observe. I think it's safe to say my corgi is there, somewhere.
Potassium Flare Stars
Barbier and Morguleff observed the star again the next night. The result changed. The potassium emission lines were gone.
The Fermi Paradox
If you get to roll the dice 40 billion times, you're going to score double sixes quite a lot.
