Welcome to part three of my trilogy on the birth, life and death of stars.
In last week's Skywatch column, the life of stars, I told how stars cook up energy in their co...
Last week in Starwatch, in the first part of a trilogy of the birth, life and death of a star, I described how stars are born. Balls of hydrogen gas gravitationally coal...
In the history of this column, I've touched on the life cycle of stars, but I haven't really gone into details.
The stars we gaze on night after night, when it's clear e...
With the end of daylight-saving time, it's dark enough for stargazing by 7 p.m. You can make the stars your old friends and still get a very good night's sleep, but the ...
Once again the full moon is upon us this week and if you're a regular reader of this column, you know I have a tendency to whine about it.
After all, the full moon is th...
3 planets visible to eye
Rolling out of the sack, throwing on some clothes, and checking out the predawn star-filled sky this month is well worth losing sleep over.
You c...
One of the marquee constellations of the autumn sky is Pegasus the winged horse and it's next door neighbor constellation Andromeda the Princess.
You can't miss it in th...
I hope you enjoyed the 2007 version of the full harvest moon this past week. As nice as it was, it's also great that we're getting back our dark skies as the shrinking, ...
Remember the old children's song, "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle and here is my spout?"
Well one of the classic constellations in the summer sk...
Where has the summer of 2007 gone? We're hearing the swan song of summer loud and clear; the sun's riding a little lower in the sky, schools are opening, and I even spot...
