Tag: night sky

Remember the movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster? She contacted aliens from a famous star that in the movie was pronounced ...

A supernova in our lifetimes is not impossible.

The famous star Betelgeuse is dimmer than anyone has seen it in a century.

This is the very finest test of vision in all the heavens.

Find out why the coming year will be so remarkable.

Folklore says that such a ring around the Sun or Moon portends the arrival of a storm within 24 hours. ...

Astronomers use the letter X followed by a constellation name to represent objects emitting X-rays — a rarity in the ...

Moonlight is at its brightest. Let’s celebrate that by giving it some attention during this lunation. Copernicus, a magnificent, isolated ...

Consider Andromeda: When our sister galaxy’s one trillion stars collide with us in four billion years, no stars will make ...

Monday, Nov. 11: It lasts over seven hours, with the middle of the transit happening at around 10:30 a.m., when ...

Since cold air can hold just one-thirtieth as much water vapor as very warm air, the substance we breathe is ...

This setup typically lets cold polar air pour into the Northeast, and can set the stage for early snowstorms.

Saturday, October 5: There’s even a backup plan in case of clouds. Saturn and the Moon will be just as ...

Halos are the poor person’s Weather Channel: a time-honored harbinger of bad weather.

Some say summer ends in a few days. Others say we have a few more weeks. A look at those ...

As for the “first-born son has a higher chance for success” notion, the Apollo astronauts would seem to support such ...

Our cloudiest month is November, but we are currently in the midst of a happy transformation.

The media will call it a Supermoon, astronomers will call it lunar perigee, and Hudson River tides will be stronger ...

Why does each cell in our body have 90 trillion atoms, roughly the same as the number of stars in ...

On Saturday and Sunday nights, Dec. 15 and 16, Bob expects Comet Wirtanen to achieve naked-eye visibility – the first ...