Dec 252019
Today I read a quote in the January 2020 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. The quote is by Dr. Roy K. Marshall. He was an astronomer that worked at the Franklin Institute’s Fels planetarium and the first director of the Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, N.C. He also hosted the popular 15 minute television show The Nature Of Things that ran on NBC from 1948 to 1952.
Unless astronomers assign themselves the task of stopping journalistic nonsense about astronomy, surely no one else is going to do the job.
I couldn’t agree more. So, I am sure that this August when asked, once again, about Mars being the size of the full Moon, I will, once again, have to counter “journalistic nonsense”.