Night Sky
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• JAN 2 Earth is at perihelion, its closest distance to the Sun at 91.4 million miles. Prolific science fiction author and polymath,…
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What would December’s holiday season be without festive light displays? Well, with the exception of a few Scrooges and Grinches, most of us would…
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I’m just as human as anyone else, so if I see a good two-for-one deal, I’m going to take advantage of it. The universe…
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In 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), successfully entered into orbit around the moon in order to carry out its primary mission of…
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To best appreciate this month’s feature object, we must go back in time 4.6 billion years ago to when our solar system was born. …
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Every backyard stargazer has their favorite object to showcase in a telescope, objects that are guaranteed to elicit a few “oohs” and “ahs”…
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Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red…
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Astronomy is perhaps the oldest of the sciences. Ever since our distant ancestors were capable of looking up at the night sky…
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Mnemonic devices are useful memory tools and astronomy is certainly no stranger to them. In elementary school many of us of a…
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There is always something magical about seeing the bright flash of a meteor as it streaks across a dark, star-filled sky. One…
