I usually write about telescope dos and don’ts around the holiday season, but I thought for a change I’d write about it now.
After all, it’s a lot more comfortable this ...
In my other life I’ve been a weather forecaster for nearly 40 years, and admittedly when the forecast goes really bad I end up eating crow.
Why is it that crows get such...
This is your absolute last chance to see what’s left of the brilliant winter constellations in the Butler western sky.
They’ve just about crashed in the low western sky,...
It sounds like a subway train rushing by. Or a plane flying low overhead. But it’s something much more exotic: In all likelihood, the first “marsquake” ever recorded by ...
Now that we're well into spring and winter is history, at least astronomically, big changes are going on with our evening constellations.
Even though it's spring, Orion ...
WASHINGTON — Humanity got its first glimpse Wednesday of the cosmic place of no return: a black hole.
And it’s as hot, as violent and as beautiful as science fiction ima...
When you start to consider the size of the cosmos, the numbers can get so large and so mind-boggling that when you try to wrap your brain around them your head could exp...
All winter long the great constellation Orion the Hunter has roamed our skies, with its bright belt of three stars in nearly a perfect row.
Orion isn't alone, either. He...
The best stargazing will be during the first couple of weeks of April for several reasons.
For one thing we won’t have as much moonlight in the sky messing up the darkne...
One of the sure-fire objects in the night sky that will get anyone turned on to the hobby of stargazing is the great Orion Nebula, a gargantuan stellar factory.
I guaran...
