Ken Tapping

STARGAZING: Worlds like ours

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

Every material object in the observable universe is made up of atoms.

STARGAZING:Almost nothing

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

Every material object in the observable universe is made up of atoms.

STARGAZING: Iron and its’ role in space

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: Colliding galaxies

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: Living on the moon

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton

STARGAZING: How it began in Canada

In 1940, early in the Second World War, Britain was hard-pressed dealing with its immediate defence.

STARGAZING: A star for each season

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton

STARGAZING: Bubble universes

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton

STARGAZING: Balls of hot gas

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton

STARGAZING: Pulsars

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: Holes in the Sun

Astronomy books often describe the Sun as a "ball of hot gas".

STARGAZING: Winter solstice and another year passes

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: F10.7 in Europe etc.

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: Great gifts for astronomer friends

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

STARGAZING: Dance of the planets

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.

COLUMN: Ken Tapping – Stargazing

On Halloween, Earth had a close encounter with a dead comet: a ball of ice and dust some 400 metres in diameter

STARGAZING: A magnetic planet

Displays of the aurora borealis are quite familiar to us, but that is not the case for many other worlds.

STARGAZING: Space geology?

Some time ago I sent an image of a rock outcrop to a good friend who is a geologist.

STARGAZING: Comets – good and bad

However, although cometary impacts can be bad, they can be good. Without them the Earth could arid and lifeless.

STARGAZING: Earth’s aether speed

Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council's Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton.