Add to ORKGIntroduction: Too few people care about the stars...Old people know the stars and children love them...Stars are no longer regarded as useful, therefore they have been abandoned. A century ago people knew them better...Culture was given precedence over practicality...I find the old people can call the stars by name, while the young do not know them. -- Annie Jump Cannon, 1924. According to ancient tradition the Osages (in their own language, the Wahzhazhe) came to earth from the stars. Perhaps they were the first to comprehend that we are all made of stardust
Introduction: Stretching across the dark night sky, not easily visible when the Moon is in the sky, ...
What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been establis...
Introduction: It was the Age of the City. In the fifty years following the Civil War, during the Sec...
Introduction: Too few people care about the stars...Old people know the stars and children love the...
Introduction: Now we have electric lights and the stars are hard to see. At sea we hide in luxuriou...
Introduction: On a dark night, a person with good vision can see for twenty quadrillion miles and as...
Introduction: Wahzhazhe come from the stars By their choice, not by falling Or being thrown out Of t...
Introduction: Our ancestors sought solace—inner peace or comfort—by looking up. Sometimes the look w...
Introduction: In these days of great trouble and unrest, it is good to have something outside our o...
We can still see the sky the way our ancestors and Native Americans did. It is still there, unchange...
Introduction: When the Great American Cowboy first emerged from the dust of the Old Chisholm Trail, ...
Introduction: In pre-Civil War America, escaping slaves learned elementary astronomy, journeyed towa...
Introduction: Wah-kon-da, the mystery force of the universe, sent the Osage down from the sky to be ...
A guide to practical astronomy. It introduces the reader to some basic (and some not-so-basic) astro...
From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing position...
Introduction: Stretching across the dark night sky, not easily visible when the Moon is in the sky, ...
What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been establis...
Introduction: It was the Age of the City. In the fifty years following the Civil War, during the Sec...
Introduction: Too few people care about the stars...Old people know the stars and children love the...
Introduction: Now we have electric lights and the stars are hard to see. At sea we hide in luxuriou...
Introduction: On a dark night, a person with good vision can see for twenty quadrillion miles and as...
Introduction: Wahzhazhe come from the stars By their choice, not by falling Or being thrown out Of t...
Introduction: Our ancestors sought solace—inner peace or comfort—by looking up. Sometimes the look w...
Introduction: In these days of great trouble and unrest, it is good to have something outside our o...
We can still see the sky the way our ancestors and Native Americans did. It is still there, unchange...
Introduction: When the Great American Cowboy first emerged from the dust of the Old Chisholm Trail, ...
Introduction: In pre-Civil War America, escaping slaves learned elementary astronomy, journeyed towa...
Introduction: Wah-kon-da, the mystery force of the universe, sent the Osage down from the sky to be ...
A guide to practical astronomy. It introduces the reader to some basic (and some not-so-basic) astro...
From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing position...
Introduction: Stretching across the dark night sky, not easily visible when the Moon is in the sky, ...
What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been establis...
Introduction: It was the Age of the City. In the fifty years following the Civil War, during the Sec...