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A science center planetarium educator, Travis Lund writes about observational astronomy for Biology Insights. He previously led museum tours and presented public astronomy demonstrations. Lund still conducts live dome shows and teacher workshops a few hours a week.

What Is a Planetesimal? The Building Blocks of Planets Earth & Space
What Event Brings the Forming Star Into Energy Balance?Physics
What Is the Plane of the Ecliptic?Earth & Space
Where Does the Heat Inside New Planets Come From?Earth & Space
What Is a Solar Day and Why Is It 24 Hours?Earth & Space
Do Stars Blink in the Sky? The Science of Twinkling Earth & Space
Why Were Ancient Peoples Unable to Detect Stellar Parallax?Earth & Space
Can All the Planets Align in a Straight Line?Earth & Space
Why Do Some Stars Flicker Red and Blue?Earth & Space
Is There a Purple Planet? The Science of Planetary Color Earth & Space
What Is Accretion in the Context of Planet Formation?Earth & Space
Why Does the Moon Wobble? The Science of Lunar Libration Earth & Space
Why Does the Moon Look So Low in the Sky?Earth & Space
Can a Planet Become a Star? The Physics Explained Physics
How Does Gravity Cause Planets to Orbit the Sun?Physics
What Is a Secondary Atmosphere and How Does It Form?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If the Sun’s Core Temperature Decreased?Earth & Space
Does Uranus Have Clouds? The Chemistry of Its Atmosphere Earth & Space
Is There Another Sun? Searching for Solar Analogs Earth & Space
What Are Lobate Scarps on Mercury?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If Jupiter Replaced the Moon?Earth & Space
How to Calculate the Solar Constant Physics
What Is the Convection Zone of a Star?Earth & Space
When Are Stars Born? The Process of Star Formation Earth & Space
Why Do the Patterns of the Stars Look the Same Each Year?Earth & Space
Why Does Sirius Flicker and Change Colors?Earth & Space
Is Venus Tidally Locked? Explaining Its Strange Spin Earth & Space
What Is Right Ascension and Declination?Earth & Space
What Outward Force Balances Against Gravity in a Star?Physics
In Which Layer of the Sun Do Sunspots Form?Earth & Space