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By Scott Levine A friend grabbed me a few weeks ago to ask about a headline he saw saying an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building was heading our way. Run for your lives! These headlines, which stop

By Scott Levine The summer solstice – the first day of summer – was about a week ago. This means the first lunar cycle of summer is about to start with today’s new moon (June 28). There’s an incredible amount

By Scott Levine Here at the very end of May, the last full month of spring is behind us. The official start of summer is only about three weeks away. Changes are happening in the night sky, too. As we

By Scott Levine With the world in turmoil and as unpredictable as it’s been, it often feels impossible to find anything that gives us even the slightest sense of calm or control. It’s hard to keep moving forward. As sure

By Scott Levine Last December, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many people see Webb as the much-more-powerful successor to NASA/JPL’s Hubble Space Telescope. For more than 30 years, Hubble has driven

By Scott Levine We often talk about the skies the ancients saw and about how those skies inspired them. We still use many of their lessons, even though the skies just don’t look how we imagine they did ages ago.

By Scott Levine If you’ve had a few minutes and looked to the southwest over the last few months, maybe you’ve noticed and stared at the long line of bright planets that have stretched across that part of the sky

By Scott Levine With all the festivities this time of year, candles, turkeys or trees, this is the most festive time in the skies, too. Welcome to Orion season. Recorded references to the constellation Orion go back close to 40,000