SMALL NEWS IS BIG NEWS
By Scott Levine
By Scott Levine Here’s a question: How far is Earth from the sun? Back in the dark corners of your memory, behind the list of all the state capitals and the seven times table, you probably remember what you learned
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By Scott Levine A few months ago, we talked about the endless pleasure of seeing Mars, bright and red like a planet full of rusted fence posts from more than a hundred million miles away. The clouds have been heavy
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By Scott Levine About 12 years ago, not long after we moved up from Brooklyn, I carried my daughter into the night and looked up. I was amazed. With no trouble at all I could see the delicate arch of
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By Scott Levine The other night I was looking up and thinking about the star patterns we see. One of the most interesting things to me is not just the stars, though they’re certainly fascinating, but the asterisms they’re in.
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by Scott Levine A few months ago, we talked about using the sun and moon, along with some simple observation tricks, to find the out solar system’s planets in the night sky. With just a little bit of practice, it’s
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By Scott Levine It’s a funny thing about the moon’s phases. They don’t care about our calendar. Even though the word “month” comes from an old Germanic word for the time it takes for the moon to orbit earth, our
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By Scott Levine For all the good they do, all their old-timey-Tweeting of what’s going on in our heads, sticky notes have a dark side. Let me share this one with you that I found on my desk recently, in
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By Scott Levine Through July, most of the space news has been full of extraordinary stories and gorgeous photos of the alluringly named comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), which was visible with the naked eye even in Westchester’s skies. Comets are
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By Scott Levine If you can believe it, the end of June brings us to the midway point through another trip around the sun. This doesn’t really change anything, but it’s interesting to know that everything in space is always
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By Scott Levine Though we often think of the sky as permanent and unchanging, one of the greatest pleasures of watching often is seeing it change from night to night. With enough time, we get to see stories unfold little
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