I returned to the Moon
My first look at the Moon through binoculars changed my life. I was maybe nine years old. The reality of its craters
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The glory of the Seven Sisters: When have you gazed at the Pleiades?
It’s an annual autumn ritual: the reappearance of the glorious Seven Sisters. This moonless week, they rise in the east
New experiment shows space doesn’t exist
The idea of a kind of inseparability so far as space and time are concerned was dealt with by John
Eerie times and a near miss by an asteroid named Spooky
Halloween will be spookier than usual this year. It’s already a dark and sort of creepy time in the heavens,
See the brightest planets in 2015’s best conjunction
Antimatter? The strange effect that observers have on their experiments? The non-reality of time? Mind-stretching topics are fun. But sometimes
Wild morning display continues with the year’s best look at Mercury
It all happens at 6:30 a.m. Even if you’re up then, will you really go outdoors, or maybe even drive
Nation’s largest sheep & wool festival at Dutchess Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck
Even in a region bursting at the seams with fall festivals, the annual New York State Sheep & Wool Festival
Celebrating Andrew Jackson Downing’s bicentennial in Poughkeepsie & Newburgh
Andrew Jackson (A. J.) Downing (1815-1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist and writer who became influential in American architectural
Stalking the giant puffball
I glanced out the bedroom window one afternoon and saw something big and white and round tucked under a rhododendron
Slabsides Day this Saturday
There will be an Open House at Slabsides on Saturday, October 3. If you arrive at noon, you can hear a lecture