Don’t get me wrong. The discovery of Kepler-186f is a big deal: a near Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of its star, neither too close nor too distant from it for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface.…
Month: April 2014
May/June 2014 Sky Watcher’s Guide
This will be an every-two-months guide to what you can see in the night sky, geared to mid-latitude northern hemisphere observers. The original post with more detailed guidance can be found here. What can you expect to see in May…
Total Lunar Eclipse
In the early pre-dawn morning hours of Tuesday, April 15th, most of the Western Hemisphere will witness a total lunar eclipse. Totality (when the Earth completely blocks the Sun as seen from the Moon) begins at 3:07 am EDT and…
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