Mary Stewart Adams
Mary Stewart Adams is a Star Lore Historian and host of the weekly public radio program and podcast “The Storyteller’s Night Sky.” Mary published her first book The Star Tales of Mother Goose~For Those Who Seek the Secret Language of the Stars, in 2021, richly illustrated by her sister and long-time collaborator, artist Patricia Delisa.
As a global advocate for starry skies, Mary led the team that established the 9th International Dark Sky Park in the world in 2011, which later led to her home state of Michigan protecting 35,000 acres of state land for its natural darkness.
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The Moon was New on Sunday, first New Moon of the new season, and by Thursday, it will have “shed her silver seasons four upon the night,” as John Keats would say. -
This will be a week of our needing agility, on an astronomical scale, and here’s why...
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This week marks the anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, 701 years ago on September 14th in 1321. And because the planet Mars is beautifully positioned among the stars of Taurus right now, I want to consider what happens in the Paradise of Dante’s Divine Comedy when he passes through the Mars sphere.
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This week it’s worth getting up for the ceremony of dawn when the crescent Moon crowns Venus as the morning star.
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The Moon came to New Phase early Saturday morning, and this week, we’ll see it as a beautiful waxing crescent in the West after sunset, making its way among the stars that are below the celestial equator.
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Mars and Venus for Sweet Dreams and Health and Quiet Breathing: This week on Storyteller's Night SkyThis week Mars comes closest to the Bull’s Eye star Aldebaran in Taurus, while Venus sweeps past Regulus, at the heart of the Lion, all of which will be seen in the morning sky.
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This week in the sky it’s all about time, with Saturn peeking up over the eastern edge of the world just as the Sun sets.
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Though this week's Full Moon on August 11 will diminish an outward experience of meteors, it bears a unique opportunity for knowing what the hero finds within.
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Historically, an understanding of the stars can be divided into three periods: from the ancient era of humanity to the scientific revolution of the middle ages; from that revolution to the 20th century; and from the 20th century to the present.
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Recently there’s been a lot of buzz about the James Webb Space Telescope that was launched late last year and has recently sent back images that boggle the mind when it comes to conceiving of the vast distances of space and time that it seems to reveal.
