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Merry Christmas Cards!

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 24, 2020 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoDecember 24, 2020
This entry is part 53 of 54 in the series And Then I Wrote

And then I wrote…  There was a joke when I was growing up in Michigan, that the state’s Secretary of State had one job, to choose the color of the license plates; and every year he blew it! Well, one of the jobs I get as director of the Observatory is choosing the picture and text for our Christmas Cards every year. And, yes, people complain! I thought I would share some cards from Years Past… The “rules” for the card are simple. It has to have a nice photo from the Observatory itself, and a text in both English and Italian that relates both to astronomy and to the season. Antonio Coretti, our IT guru and designer in Rome, puts the cards together and then sends them off to the Vatican press to be printed. Alas, not this year; finances are tight and so we couldn’t afford to print or mail cards. Instead, we prepared an electronic version. In … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: When Reason Itself Becomes Flesh

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 26, 2019 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoNovember 28, 2019
This entry is part 53 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

39This column was first published in The Tablet in December, 2008). We first published it here in 2015. “In the beginning was the Word.” So opens the Gospel according to St. John. When I was young they called this (John’s Chapter 1, verses 1-14) “The Last Gospel.” We heard it repeated so often at the end of every Mass, that the words went past us without registering. When they tried teaching us Greek in High School, this was a favorite passage; it was an easy exercise, using the same few words over and over, ringing changes on their position and grammar. But of course the underlying philosophy is anything but easy. Word as used here is our weak English translation for the Greek logos. Logos carries a great weight of philosophical meaning, from “rational discourse” to the fundamental order of the universe. It is the word from which we get logic. Try substituting “Logic” or “Reason” for “Word” in that Gospel: “In the beginning was Logic. In the beginning … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: Christmas Presence

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 12, 2019 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoDecember 12, 2019
This entry is part 52 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column was first published in The Tablet in December, 2007) We first published it here in 2015. Job is not a book most people think of for the Christmas season. But there’s an echo of the angels’ Christmas song to the shepherds when God asks Job (in Chapter 38, verse 7) if any human can claim to have been around at the moment of creation, that time “when the morning stars sang together, and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy.” The song of the morning stars is poetry of the highest order. Kepler referred to the motions of the planets among those stars as “the music of the spheres.” In one of my favorite childhood novels, A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle (who, sadly, died this past year [2007]), her young hero actually encounters, in person, the singing spirits of stars. The image reminds us that in its essence, creation is a source of joy; and a lot of fun. … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: Recognizing the Star

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 27, 2018 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoNovember 19, 2018
This entry is part 50 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column was first published in The Tablet in December, 2009 and here on 2015) In November and December of 2009, I was team-teaching a course called “Dynamic Evolution” at LeMoyne College, a small Jesuit university in Syracuse, New York. The biblical scholar from Leuven, Fr. Jan Lambrecht SJ, concentrated on the world-view of the New Testament in the first half of the course; my task was to bring the students forward through the cosmologies of the middle ages and the scientific revolution, to present day views on space and time: quantum theory and relativity. It’s been an exhausting journey. For many of the undergraduates, the shocking message has been how little we know for certain. After an academic path focused mostly on memorizing “facts” they must now come to the realization that everything they’ve been taught is, if not exactly wrong, then at least woefully incomplete. With everything we learn, we also learn how much more there is to know. Certainly, the world of … Continue reading →

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Three paths to enlightenment. Or something. (Only one costs you money!)

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 10, 2018 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoDecember 10, 2018
This entry is part 31 of 63 in the series Diary

This has been a great year for the Vatican Observatory Foundation, in a lot of ways. We’ve made major upgrades to the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. We supported a fantastically successful Vatican Observatory Summer School, the 16th that we’ve run since the program began in 1986. The Jesuits and our adjunct astronomers have given hundreds of public talks and appeared in dozens of newspapers and media interviews. (I even got my picture on the front page of the New York Times!) Our Faith and Astronomy digital library is now up and running, at it has already attracted nearly 50,000 views. And the Catholic Astronomer website is now followed by more than 8,000 subscribers. In terms of supporting the scientific and educational work of the Vatican Observatory, we’ve never done more. The one downside? We are running seriously short in fundraising.  How serious? Well… every year we make up a budget, and for 2018 we assumed that we’d be able to … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: Lights all askew in the heavens…

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 6, 2018 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoNovember 19, 2018
This entry is part 7 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column first ran in The Tablet in December 2015 One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his theory of General Relativity and changed the way we understand our universe. Newton had shown, 200 years earlier, that one could use mathematics (including his newly invented Calculus) to describe and even predict the way things in our physical universe move. But to do that, Newton had had to assume without definition the concepts of space, mass, and time. He had to assume that forces like gravity acted “at a distance”… Earth could pull on the Moon even if there’s nothing but this mystical “gravity” connecting them. Finally, he had to envision a playing field, the “inertial frame of reference”, where these forces could move those masses through space, over time. The whole genius of physics is to describe motion and change; but change, relative to what? Newton’s unmoving frame of reference was his answer. But was the Earth’s surface such a … Continue reading →

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Br. Guy’s Christmas Message 2017

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 21, 2017 by Website AdminDecember 21, 2017

Br. Guy takes a moment to consider the Christmas Season from an Astronomer’s point of view. Thank you for all the support the Vatican Observatory Foundation has received during this year: financial support, emotional support and, above all, prayers. To the entire Vatican Observatory family, the staff, the many colleagues, and so many friends warmest wishes of a Blessed Christmas! Image Description: “Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, created in joint effort between Spitzer’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instruments.

The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center of the combined IRAC-MIPS image. The stars appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the “Snowflake Cluster.” Star-forming clouds like … Continue reading →

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In the Sky this Week- December 19, 2017

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 19, 2017 by Bob TrembleyDecember 19, 2017
This entry is part 12 of 179 in the series In the Sky This Week

Mercury rises with the dawn, low in the southeastern sky. Jupiter, Mars and the star Spica are aligned almost in a straight line in the predawn sky. A thin waxing crescent Moon appears at dusk in the southwest on 21st. The Moon with be at first quarter on Christmas; all week long would be a great time to set up your telescope and show the Moon to family, friends and neighbors during this holiday season! The Sun One tiny little sunspot, and that’s all folks! Click the image below to see a larger version at the Solar Dynamics Observatory site, then scroll way over to the upper-left to find the sunspot. If you click the image above, in the close-up view you will notice grainy … somethings on the Sun – these are called granules. “Granules are small (about 1000 km across) cellular features that cover the entire Sun except for those areas covered by sunspots. These features are the tops of … Continue reading →

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How Does an Astronomer Explain the Science Behind The Christmas Phenomenon?

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 14, 2017 by Bob TrembleyDecember 14, 2017

Have you ever wondered whether the Magi really saw a Star leading them to Jesus? A few years ago, the Catholic News Service interviewed Brother Guy Consomagno, S.J., about how astronomers explain the science behind the Christmas phenomenon. This video posted, also posted on our Faith & Science website, will help you to better understand the scientific possibilities and the importance of this religious symbol from the Director of the Vatican Observatory. Have a Blessed Christmas!

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Across the Universe: Angels Tweet on High

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 14, 2017 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoMay 30, 2018
This entry is part 155 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column first ran in The Tablet in December 2012 “The Pope is on Twitter,” I am told [in 2012]. “Shouldn’t the Vatican Observatory have a Twitter account, too?” I’m the Observatory’s expert on such media (expert up to 1995) so I look into this. I start with a personal Twitter account, and then a few days later @VaticanObserv is born. (So are versions in French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish, thanks to our polyglot community.) Twitter, a network of friends communicating in 140 character snips, had already been around for half a dozen years and boasts half a billion accounts, but it’s new to me. My friends seem quite proficient at sharing the minutiae of their lives; I agonize over every post, hitting delete more often than send. But soon I discover an unexpected utility for this network. When the American Geophysical Union meets in San Francisco, with latest spacecraft results from Mercury, Mars, and the Moon, I can follow … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: Group effort

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 7, 2017 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoMay 30, 2018
This entry is part 154 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column first ran in The Tablet in December 2011 Earlier this month [in 2011], I sent an email to a colleague asking for some data she’d promised me, and I got a rather apologetic reply: “Sorry, I am away from my computer; we’re in Stockholm this week.” Her husband, also an astronomer, had been part of Saul Perlmutter’s Supernova Cosmology Project, and Saul had invited the whole team to join him when he picked up his Nobel Prize for that work. Perlmutter shared the prize with two other astronomers, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss. Together they and their collaborators made the most-precise-ever observations of the motions of distant galaxy clusters. Once they’d analyzed these data, they discovered that the universe is not only expanding (as Hubble had first observed more than 80 years ago), but expanding at an ever-faster rate. The energy behind this acceleration is unknown; Perlmutter and his group coined the term “dark energy” to indicate that … Continue reading →

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Across the Universe: Recognizing the Star

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on December 22, 2016 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoMay 30, 2018
This entry is part 104 of 191 in the series Across the Universe

This column first appeared in The Tablet in December 2009 The fall of 2009 found me team-teaching a course called “Dynamic Evolution” at LeMoyne College, a small Jesuit university in Syracuse, New York. The biblical scholar from Leuven, Fr. Jan Lambrecht SJ, concentrated on the world-view of the New Testament in the first half of the course; my task was to bring the students forward through the cosmologies of the middle ages and the scientific revolution, to present day views on space and time: quantum theory and relativity. It’s been an exhausting journey. For many of the undergraduates, the shocking message has been how little we know for certain. After an academic path focused mostly on memorizing “facts” they must now come to the realization that everything they’ve been taught is, if not exactly wrong, then at least woefully incomplete. With everything we learn, we also learn how much more there is to know. Certainly, the world of certainties is an illusion. … Continue reading →

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“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”, 10-13: Goodbye to a Losing Season

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 16, 2021 by Christopher M. GraneyJanuary 15, 2021

When your favorite team is not so good, sometimes the end of the season can come as a relief.  That’s doubly true when the last couple games of the season go especially badly.  This Cosmos fan finds himself happy to see this season come to an end.  There is always … Continue reading…

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JWST update – Hexagons in Space

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 15, 2021 by Deirdre KelleghanJanuary 15, 2021

My small group at Space Camp in Louisburgh. Proud of their new James Webb replica mirror and knowledge !! What an exciting week regarding the JWST announcment that the launch date is set for October 31st 2021 !!! Am shareing my previous blog about a workshop I did back in … Continue reading…

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ⓜ Curiosity and the Exploration of Mars, I

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 14, 2021 by Br. Guy ConsolmagnoJanuary 14, 2021
This entry is part 1 of 54 in the series And Then I Wrote

And then I wrote… On January 12, 2021, the NASA Mars rover Curiosity marked 3000 Martian days on the surface of Mars. In 2012 I was invited to write an article about the exploration of Mars; “Curiosity e l’esplorazione di Marte” appeared in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica on November 17,2012. … Continue reading…

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A Platonic journey

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 13, 2021 by Richard HillJanuary 13, 2021
This entry is part 38 of 38 in the series Lunarcy

I always look forward to the appearance of the 104km diameter crater Plato and surrounding environs as they emerge from the lunar night. There is so much to see there I find imaging irresistible. Usually I don’t like to do this wide a field but there’s much to enjoy. Plato’s … Continue reading…

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In the Sky This Week – January 12, 2021

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 12, 2021 by Bob TrembleyJanuary 14, 2021
This entry is part 179 of 179 in the series In the Sky This Week

Venus appears very low above the southeastern horizon before sunrise. Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury continue to form a triple conjunction in the southwestern sky at dusk – Saturn may be a bit difficult to see; Mercury appears slightly higher above the horizon each evening. Mercury appears in the southwestern sky … Continue reading…

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Specola Guestbook | June 16, 1924: Knut Lundmark and Sten Asklöf

Sacred Space Astronomy avatarPosted on January 10, 2021 by Robert MackeJanuary 4, 2021
This entry is part 76 of 76 in the series Specola Guestbook

Since its founding in 1891, many people have passed through the doors of the Vatican Observatory.  A quick perusal of our guestbook reveals several Names, including Popes, Nobel laureates, astronauts, actors, and saints. Today’s guestbook entry is from June 16, 1924, when Knut Lundmark and Sten Asklöf made a visit. Next … Continue reading…

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  • Stan Sienkiewicz January 16, 2021 at 9:17 am on “Cosmos: Possible Worlds”, 10-13: Goodbye to a Losing SeasonIt is a shame that the producers of the show are not amazed by the real world and need to enhance reality with special effects. I feel you are discussing a topic that is coming up quite often about our culture: the lack of astonishment. I recently had taken a...
  • Fernando Comeron January 15, 2021 at 5:22 am on JWST update – Hexagons in SpaceIncidentally, you can see that we at the European Southern Observatory (ESO, of which Ireland is a member too) did something that bears some resemblance several years ago. We invited visitors to our headquarters near Munich on the open doors day in 2011 to put hexagons together to reproduce a...
  • Fernando Comeron January 15, 2021 at 5:07 am on JWST update – Hexagons in SpaceNice article, Deirdre -and actually hexagons in space are very common, although very tiny. Carbon hexagonal cycles are at the basis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of molecules that compose the cold interstellar medium. So hexagons are pretty much everywhere in the Universe!
  • Bob Trembley January 14, 2021 at 2:01 am on In the Sky This Week – January 12, 2021Thanks for keeping me honest! :) I corrected it to say "Mercury appears slightly higher above the horizon each evening." When you advance days in Stellarium at dusk, you see Jupiter and Saturn get lower each day, and Mercury getting higher. Venus gets a bit lower each morning in the...
  • Joseph O'Donnell January 12, 2021 at 10:03 am on In the Sky This Week – January 12, 2021"Mercury appears slightly higher above the horizon each morning" I believe you mean Venus or am I missing something?
  • Christopher M. Graney January 4, 2021 at 10:50 am on Carols versus Matthew on the Star of WonderVery interesting -- I had never read the "Gospel of James", or "Protoevangelium of James", until now. Below is its whole section about the star, for those not familiar with it. Remarkably, the same problem is found in it. It follows Matthew in talking about the magi. No one knows...
  • Christopher M. Graney January 4, 2021 at 10:43 am on Carols versus Matthew on the Star of WonderI should have been more clear. When I said "This sounds just like the Great Conjunction of 2020", I meant it sounds like that *kind* of thing -- something no one who was not an astronomer would have noticed it just by chance.
  • Alfred Kracher January 2, 2021 at 10:47 am on Carols versus Matthew on the Star of WonderEmbellishments of Matthew’s simple “star” into a spectacular miracle are all but irrresistible. Already in the apocryphal 2nd century Gospel of James it shines with an “incredible brilliance amidst the constellations and making them seem dim.” And over the centuries artists of all kinds have further expanded on these exaggerations,...
  • Fr. Timothy Sauppé January 2, 2021 at 5:30 am on Carols versus Matthew on the Star of WonderI thought the biggest objection to the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction being the “Star of Bethlehem” was the 800 year cycle of its occurrence viz. the timing is off. Also, I am reminded of a comment of an amateur astronomer when he went to Chile, up in the Andes. He said there...
  • Stan Sienkiewicz December 26, 2020 at 1:07 pm on The Sun Illuminates Fort AncientYes, while not quite following the astronomy it still is fascinating to see what these early N American people did to their environment. As to why they did it and your article disagreeing with the solstice explanation reminded me of the book, Motel of the Mysteries. It is a funny...
  • Joel Hopko December 24, 2020 at 1:09 pm on Bah! Humbug. Science.And a very Merry Christmas to you Professor. May your spirit and inquiring mind continue to brighten our New Year! Joel Hopko
  • Fr. Timothy Sauppé December 21, 2020 at 6:04 pm on Was Jesus Born on December 25? The Fight Between Inculturation and Radical Certitude.Just saw this Socrates In The City from 2005 with Eric Metaxas interviewing Colin Nicholl. His book and thesis is that the Star of Bethlehem was one big comet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mT-8O8S_Fw&t=1s
  • Bob Prokop December 21, 2020 at 12:08 pm on Was Jesus Born on December 25? The Fight Between Inculturation and Radical Certitude.It's interesting that Tolkien chose March 25th as the date the One Ring was cast into the fires of Mount Doom (see the appendixes to The Return of the King for the date). It can't be a coincidence that the destruction of evil in Middle Earth coincides with the Annunciation...
  • Fr. Timothy Sauppé December 21, 2020 at 10:35 am on Was Jesus Born on December 25? The Fight Between Inculturation and Radical Certitude.Here is an interesting take by Liberato De Caro, Ph.D., of the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council in Bari, Italy, who led the research, proposes that the date of Jesus’ birth. He posits 1 BC for Jesus’ Birth. For your consideration. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/liberato-de-caro-nativity?utm_campaign=NCR%202019&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=102396683&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9xKkcgGuiy7rFyWiX8fgbgA63Wabi_9C-VcU6QmESl4QYoKUDYHXm6DrY_jGwbVptu0roDhgBz363uEIX8dd6P7oOaBQ&utm_content=102396683&utm_source=hs_email
  • Bob Prokop December 18, 2020 at 7:52 am on Pursuing the ConjunctionLooks like we're going to be clouded out here in Maryland. But I did get a good look at the two planets last night (Thursday). They were already practically on top of each other! So it has not been a total loss. By the way, your December 14th drawing is...
  • Fr. James Kurzynski December 14, 2020 at 6:42 am on Follow the Money, the Science, or the Theology? A Second Reflection on the Forthcoming Artemis Moon Mission.Thanks Ed! I so appreciate your thoughts! As a fellow "Star Trek" fan, I can appreciate you insight! :)
  • Fr. James Kurzynski December 14, 2020 at 6:38 am on Follow the Money, the Science, or the Theology? A Second Reflection on the Forthcoming Artemis Moon Mission.Absolutely! Send me a message through the "Contact US" tab!
  • Br. Guy Consolmagno December 12, 2020 at 10:09 am on ⓜ Cosmology and ExpertiseOh, yes!
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