In 2014, the journal Nature reported that there are more planets than stars in our galaxy. It was an easy...
Read moreRainbow season has now ended. This magical phenom is rare in winter, since it requires a sky with separate clouds...
Read moreGet ready for your longest shadow of the year...
Read moreThe cosmos didn’t just leak in here drop by drop from another dimension, as the once-popular Steady State theory suggested....
Read moreIn our era of mind-twisting cosmic items like pulsars and black holes, when edge-of-the-universe galaxies are routinely detected by billion-dollar...
Read moreNature’s greatest sky spectacles may be perfectly silent, but they provoke shouts and gasps. People cannot believe the soul-stirring glory...
Read moreA lunation is the term for the Moon passing through all of its phases, which takes 29 ½ days and was...
Read moreThe first half of this year, a single planet caught everyone’s eye. Well, not everyone, just those who were up...
Read moreWe breathe mostly nitrogen. It makes up about 80% of the air. It doesn’t hurt us and it doesn’t help...
Read moreSome planets are easy to find in the night sky, while only one is usually difficult. That’s because Venus, Jupiter...
Read moreJuly’s first-ever James Webb Telescope images two weeks ago showed sharper-than-ever scenes of extremely distant objects – some distorted into...
Read moreBeginning on July 7 and continuing for the next three Thursday evenings, the geologically gifted hamlet of High Falls will...
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