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671-Long Winter Nights(424)
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to views …
4 years, 3 months ago
159E-171-Planet's Airglow
At the few remaining natural night sky viewing locations on Earth the horizon has a faint glow in every direction. Near the magnetic poles, this nig…
4 years, 3 months ago
670-Laser Surfing(364)
When we find a planet which appears to have the chemical signs of living organisms in its atmosphere, the desire to take a close up look at it will b…
4 years, 3 months ago
158E-170-Encounter with Pluto
After 9 years, 3 billion miles, and 18 sleeping periods NASA gave a wake up call to the New Horizons when it was 135 million miles from the Pluto sys…
4 years, 3 months ago
669-Seeds(356)
When a fleet of interstellar spaceships leaves our solar system for a planet circling a nearby star the most important of all of the riches that huma…
4 years, 3 months ago
157E-169-Neighborhood's Edge
Confronted with the deluge of new possible planets, in 2006, The International Astronomical Union voted to categorize Pluto as a Dwarf Planet and not…
4 years, 3 months ago
668-Dry Sands(420)
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.
4 years, 3 months ago
156E-168-Invisible Stuff
In 1933 Fritz Zwicky suggested that the high speeds of galaxies in the relatively distant Coma Cluster are indicative of some type of invisible mater…
4 years, 3 months ago
667-ET's Cigar(419)
The first alien object to observed visiting our solar system arrives from truly deep space and leaves us with the mystery of what it is and how it go…
4 years, 4 months ago
155E-167-Night Sky Friendly
Being night sky friendly means that you only use outdoor lighting fixtures which direct light onto the ground where humans need it and not up into th…
4 years, 4 months ago