astronomy
Here’s How You Can Watch the SpaceX Crew-1 Launch
Space is awesome! That sentiment doesn’t diminish as you grow older, folks. Now, thanks to c|net, there’s a way to ...
Watch Monday’s Perseid Meteor Shower at Home or Online
The annual Perseid meteor shower is one of the highlights of a stargazer’s year. It is, once again, upon us ...
An Asteroid With Its Own Moon Will Fly By Earth This Weekend
A familiar couple that lives in our cosmic neighborhood will be buzzing by us this weekend. The Asteroid 1999 KW4 ...
CHIME Astronomers Discover Peculiar Repeating Fast Radio Burst in Space
Canadian astronomers have a new toy. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is their recently unveiled radio telescope. And, it ...
The Milky Way is Covered in Space Grease
Yes, the Milky Way is filled with trillions and more tons of toxic space grease. You didn’t see that coming? ...
Citizen Scientists Actually Use the Internet for Something Useful and Discover a Star System with Five Super Earths
Here’s a fact: the age of connectivity means that a single human being armed with an internet capable device has ...
Rapper B.o.B Just Got Served By Neil deGrasse Tyson
So, I had never heard of rapper B.o.B. until I heard that astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was in some sort of feud with the ...
Remembering The Challenger 30 Years Later
It’s startling to me that it’s been thirty years. I have very vivid memories of The space shuttle Challenger disaster. To ...
Pluto Is A Planet, I Know It ‘Cause I Love It!
With all the attention Pluto is getting, I thought it appropriate to bring up one of my favorite raps about this dwarf ...
Gateway to the Unknown – New Horizons Extraterrestrial Exploration Craft Approaching Pluto!
As viewed from Pluto, the sun is a very small, very bright star. Image credit: ESO/L. Calcada ~by Taigne Hammock Excitement is ...
The Dog Days Are Over
~Taigne Hammock The phrase is attributed to the returning visibility of Sirius in mid to late August as its position moves ...
