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Carl Stocker, philanthropist, retired teacher and namesake of the Stocker AstroScience Center, was 37 at the time of the moon landing. He was at a party in Chicago and, like the rest of the world, he was watching. Stocker is pictured here with his wife, Caroline.
By Eduardo Merille
One of 2 Waimea landscape paintings, this version was commissioned, and is in a Kamuela (Waimea) private collection.
FIU's Stocker AstroScience Center offers students and the community opportunities to explore the universe, including the moon.
By Eduardo Merille
University of Mars, Mars Six College Certificate. The world of Sub Martis: Dome Lowell... Visit the website: www.submartis.com/
C/2025 A6 (Comet Lemmon): A Visitor Beyond the Frost Line
Captured on the evening of October 24, 2025, from Desert Bloom Observatory in St. David, Arizona, this image reveals the subtle beauty of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)—a celestial wanderer tracing its path through the outer reaches of our Solar System. Using a Celestron Nexstar Evolution 9.25” Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope paired with a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, the comet’s delicate coma and faint green hue emerge through the Optolong L-Pro multiband pass filter, hinting at ionized gases released as sunlight warms its icy core. Guided by precision optics and the quiet hum of equatorial tracking, this frozen relic from the early Solar System whispers stories from the age of planetary creation—its journey, timeless and luminous, across the star-filled silence.
The topic ‘Space’ creates fantasy not just in kids but also in adults. The sole reason is that it is unexplored, unique, and difficult to access. In some people, this fantasy will turn into a strong passion where they look for various sources to quench their thirst on related topics, news, etc. On the other hand, space may seem a very challenging topic because every difficult thing is quoted as- ‘This is rocket science’. This builds up an aura in the minds of elders especially that learning about space is not a cup of tea, let’s try not to overburden our kids, and so on. For people falling under such categories, SPACE remains a fantasy forever. They don’t even attempt to cross that barrier forever in their life.
In both the categories mentioned before, there is a need for refinement on how to access space education, to get a feeling that space isn’t tough, and also why there is a need to study about it. Before this, there is one more important footstep i.e., one has to know what exactly interests an individual! According to many, the topic SPACE involves various perspectives such as the universe, black holes, rockets, satellites, flights, etc. This misconception has misguided many students in ending up with wrong choices in their career path and still repent on knowing about their insightful of real ‘SPACE’. Some of them may feel fascinated by airplanes flying in the sky, some others get goosebumps when they see live rocket launching, and others just get lost when they see the dark matter in the universe. Unfortunately, all these are grouped as ‘Space’. But in reality, they are as different as an apple and a peach, despite falling into the fruit category, they may look similar but are completely different. So, first one has to think deeply about what exactly drives their interest: is it the flights, rockets, satellites, or the stars. This is the first step towards diving into any subject for that matter. Once you have figured it out, the next step is to know why you need to know about space.
Thinking about things that fly will activate the brain in terms of physics, the mathematics behind flight, concepts such as gravity, density, etc. will be well learned, why not all the things on earth are flying, why is it only aircraft able to do it and so on. Similarly, the elevator helps us to go from the first floor to the 8th floor for instance; but how can I use such an elevator to go beyond the earth’s atmosphere? Oh yes, rockets do this job, then why only a rocket can do it, and why not the same aircraft that helped us to fly inside the earth can do it. Likewise, thinking about how are we able to communicate with people residing in corners of the world, how are we able to get a thorough understanding of the earth, mapping, weather forecast, etc. Thanks to the satellites that are orbiting our earth and doing all these jobs for us. Nevertheless, are we the only ones in this universe living? We don’t know yet, but why should we limit our curiosity! Let’s explore, and that is when a man can dream about going to other planets in search of life, resources, etc. A point to be noted is that all these can be done with the things we already know i.e., we use the same spacecraft to travel to Mars, and use the same parachute to land on it and use the same toy car i.e., rovers to explore the Martian surface or in the recent days, the same helicopter we use on earth was used on Mars too-The Ingenuity. Therefore, learning these basics is just like learning the art of stitching clothes. Once you become a master of this skill, you can be the designer to any person irrespective of events. Even in space education, after learning how everything works on Earth it is much easier to adapt your knowledge not just to Mars but even to design any vehicle, technologies for interstellar travels too. So, coming back to the question of why to study about space is because it is like breaking all the thought barriers which usually limits your rational process and going beyond the level one could even imagine, not just in a dream but bringing all imagination into reality and see things working. This is something the pleasure you can evidence only while exploring oneself about ‘Space’.
The last question, how do we learn about space. Of course, there are wide internet sources which help one to know the facts, watch amazing videos on YouTube, read the encyclopedia and the list goes on. But wait, what if you find a platform where one has been promised to give all these in a combo pack! What more one needs right! That is what the team www.givemefive.ai aims at doing this amazing job. With the experts, the students are helped to discover the path they are interested in, then they are encouraged to go with their passion, they are taught with the basics and train to grasp concepts up to an advanced level not limiting to theory but also many practical applications with interesting activities. The outcome of this course will be a strong, confident individual who knows what interests him/her in Space, they come out with the dream of achieving it and they are sure about what higher studies will lead this way. Unlike the individuals who dream of the universe but end up as an Aeronautical engineer.
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The Moon, which is 365,000-406,000 km away, is the Earth’s only natural satellite. The Moon has an apparent magnitude range of -2.5 to -12.9, meaning the near side can always be observed with the naked eye (except during a new moon). It can be observed in various phases, due to its position relative to the Sun whose light illuminates its surface. Occasionally, the Moon lies in the same plane as the Sun, and we can see lunar or solar eclipses. This is caused by the close proximity of two important numbers: that the Moon is about 389 times closer to the Earth than the Sun is, while the Sun’s diameter is 403 times larger than the diameter of the Moon. The Moon and Sun appear to be the same angular size, which is why solar eclipses appear to be complete eclipses. The far side of the Moon is never visible from Earth since the Moon’s orbital and rotational periods are the same. The Moon has been Earth’s companion for billions of years; the most accepted hypothesis of the creation of the Moon is the giant Impact hypothesis, which suggests that a Mars-sized object named Theia impacted with the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The debris regrouped and then formed the Moon. The Moon has since been providing a gravitational presence that influences tides on the Earth, and a visual and emotional symbol for Earthlings, prompting music and songs about its romantic influence on humans. The image presented above is the result of the combination of five individual CCD images taken by Dr. Webb and physics major Steven Revesz, through a U filter on the 24” telescope at FIU’s Stocker Astroscience Center, on November 23, 2015. The images, whose exposure times were 0.02 seconds, were initially reduced by Dr. Webb and the mosaic was put together by Gabriel Salazar. The telescope is so powerful, looking with the eye or with a high resolution video camera, one can resolve craters less than two kilometers across on the Lunar surface. Of the features in the mosaic above, most prominent is the crater Tycho, near the right edge just above the middle. Note the rays coming from it; they were formed by the scatter of debris from the impact of an asteroid. The dark areas are “Maria” or “seas”. Although they contain no water, they are large impact sites flooded with lava in the Moons distant past. The small circular Maria at the bottom of the picture is Mare Crisium, while the larger dark Maria just above it is Mare Tranquillitatis, or the “Sea of Tranquility”. This was the site of the very first Lunar Landing, Apollo 11back in 1969.
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