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I hope you're having the best holiday season of your life and that Santa Claus treated you well and brought you everything you wanted on your gi...
Christmas 2007 is upon us, and we have not one, but two bright Christmas stars shining over us, one in the early morning sky and the other visible all night.
I'd like to...
Bull weaves a deceptive tale
Taurus the red-eyed bull, has a very ruddy eye, and if you ever saw it, you would even say….
I can see a little tinge of red in his eye. OK,...
Red Planet gets closer to Earth
Believe it or not, even though it's December, we still have some summer constellations in the western skies. At the same time, the wonderf...
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...
