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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.

How Is the Lifetime of a Star Related to Its Mass?
How Can We Describe the Location of an Object in the Local Sky?
What Is Cosmic Dust and Where Does It Come From?
What Determines Which Life Cycle Path a Star Takes?
How Might Mars Be Different Without So Much Iron?
What Evidence Shows That Sunspots Are Magnetic?
What Protects Us From the Radiation of the Sun’s Solar Wind?
Does the Sun Emit Gamma Rays?
What Is Solar Time and How Is It Measured?
How Hot Is a White Dwarf? From Formation to Cooling
What Factors Affect the Color of a Star?
Why Can We See Some Stars for Only a Portion of the Year?
What Elements Make Up Stars and How Do We Know?
Why Is the Moon Getting Further Away?
What Is a Planetesimal? The Building Blocks of Planets
What Is the Plane of the Ecliptic?
Where Does the Heat Inside New Planets Come From?
What Is a Solar Day and Why Is It 24 Hours?
Do Stars Blink in the Sky? The Science of Twinkling
Why Were Ancient Peoples Unable to Detect Stellar Parallax?
Can All the Planets Align in a Straight Line?
Why Do Some Stars Flicker Red and Blue?
Is There a Purple Planet? The Science of Planetary Color
What Is Accretion in the Context of Planet Formation?
Why Does the Moon Wobble? The Science of Lunar Libration
Why Does the Moon Look So Low in the Sky?
What Is a Secondary Atmosphere and How Does It Form?
What Would Happen If the Sun’s Core Temperature Decreased?
Does Uranus Have Clouds? The Chemistry of Its Atmosphere
Is There Another Sun? Searching for Solar Analogs