Tag: Stargazer / Stargazing
Kellyanne Conway, flat Earth and celebrity experts
To be a fact something has to be proven time and time again with the same end result. Gravity is a fact. You can prove it once by jumping off a tall building. Or…
The weaponization of outer space – it’s happening now
Space exploration has come to mean habitats on Mars, discovering five thousand distant suns with exoplanets whirling about them and all kinds of cool experiments taking place on the International Space Station. But there…
Canada – who and what took its place in space
Canada’s first astronomers weren’t called Canadians. They were the native peoples. For centuries they had been reading the northern skies to learn when to plant and when to harvest their crops. Like the Greeks…
Facts about Earth so weird they’re, well…unearthly
I spend a lot of time blathering about the planets, galaxies and all sorts of weird stuff. Today’s article remains focused on the bazaar, only this time it’s closer to home – like planet…
April’s Constellations are Invading the Night Sky
As the Sun sets in the west, Hercules the strong man and Bootes the herdsman are well up in the east. Can’t find the Big Dipper? It’s overhead at this time of year, so…
Beware March 12 is the Night of “The Worm Moon”
The Worm Moon isn’t at all creepy crawly. It’s really a good thing, especially for you gardeners. The Worm Moon is the name given the Full Moon in spring when the worms started…
Orion strides the night sky in February
Orion the Hunter is arguably the most familiar constellation after the Big Dipper to us Northern Hemisphere natives. And in February he is in his glory in the southern sky. You can spot him…
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DANGER: These space oddities may fry your loaf Here’s some Martian big talk that’ll amaze you. The red planet may be only half the size of Earth, but its now-dormant volcano, Olympus Mons has…
Warm up to winter with November’s night sky
Yes, it’s coming, the blizzards, crumby road conditions, -40C nights and shoveling, shoveling, shoveling. So when you think about it, November ain’t so bad. You don’t have to bundle up like Bib the Michelin…