autumnal equinox

  • Archaeoastronomy

    Archaeoastronomy

    Imagine that you’re living sometime around 2000 BCE, give or take a thousand years or so. That’s about 4000 years before our time. You look up at the sky at night, and see it filled with numerous points of light.…

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  • The Reason for the Seasons

    The Reason for the Seasons

    As a born Californian, I never saw seasons this dramatically until I went to college in Flagstaff, Arizona. I remember, in my first year here, when I was taking a walk around campus with a few friends. We passed over…

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