Mercury transits the sun, November 8, 2006
Bill Wilson of the Memphis Astronomical Society took this photo of the planet Mercury passing across the face of the sun by holding the lens of his digital camera up to the viewfinder of a telescope. Enthusiasm for star-gazing is infectious at the Memphis Society’s site, which was […]

What is the Internet? Jen Wofford talked it over with an American-born fourth grader. Then she gave him a stack of magazines, scissors, and glue, and he made this picture:

Next, Wofford did the same thing with a child the same age who had recently come to the U.S. from Burma. Here’s what […]