Author: Stephen Case

is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Geosciences at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, where he is also the director of the Strickler Planetarium and associate director of the university's honors program. His research focuses on the history of astronomy, and his first book, Making Stars Physical: the Astronomy of Sir John Herschel, was published in May 2018 by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Place of Departure: Careers in discovery are not constrained to astronomers alone

Posted on September 1, 2018September 14, 2018 | By Stephen Case

Chajnantor is a name given to a plateau in the high Atacama Desert. In the language of the region’s…

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