Friday the 13th and the Harvest moon
Let’s set the record straight about Friday the 13th: It’s not rare. You cannot have a year that doesn’t include
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Exploding universe: a nova and a supernova right now
It’s a great time to observe the sky if, like most guys, you love explosions. Last week the brightest nova
The mix-up that made many miss the meteors
Confusion surrounded the recent meteor shower: Many TV stations said that the Perseids would peak on Monday night, August 12.
Cosmically speaking, it’ll do no harm if you sleep in tomorrow
Between global warming and fracking, we often hear the word energy. In Woodstock many believe that “Everything is energy.” Of
Here come the meteors!
Here they come! Already the post-midnight sky is ablaze with three or four times more shooting stars than normal. Each
Simple Science Can be Fascinating
You hear or read something and go, “Wow, that’s cool, I never knew that.” When the “new” fact is something
Is gravity weirder than we think?
We’ve long known that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with its neighbor Andromeda in about four billion years. But
High dewpoint means hazier skies but crisper telescope images
It has been like Bolivia around here. We’ve endured a very humid six weeks, June and now July, with welcome
The weird winds of Venus
That’s Venus, popping out at you after sunset. It’s the single brilliant star lowish in the west as twilight deepens.
The sky on the holiday weekend
You’re on a blanket or a lounge chair, waiting for the fireworks. Twilight is deepening. The stars are beginning to