Night Sky
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The holidays bring out the kid in all of us and we astronomers are not immune, especially if there’s a celestial light show in…
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Eclipses and meteor showers always have the potential to be great celestial naked eye spectacles and this November we are being given a shot…
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October 1st is NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) event and this month’s blog is devoted to sharing the lunar love all year…
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Our solar system consists of the Sun and the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that orbit around it. The eight classical planets…
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I can sit here and extol with endless verbiage the beauty and wonder of Saturn’s rings but it’s really something that you must experience…
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Within an hour of the Sun having ushered to a close yet another scorching summer’s day, even the least imaginative among us can easily…
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“Familiarity breeds contempt” is an age-old proverb and one that is, all too sadly, true. “Contempt” may perhaps be too strong of a word…
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As the planets of our solar system move around the Sun in their various orbits, and at their own individual speeds, from our vantage…
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Today, all we need to do in order to know when winter officially ends and spring begins is to consult a calendar or the…
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Cupid is up to his usual shenanigans on the 14th but I’m going to share with you some of my love for observing the…
