Clear Skies

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

By Scott Levine This time of year, change comes fast. With the leaves tangling themselves in our shoelaces, we all know that first snow is hiding just out of view. Changes also come quickly to the nights. As the Zombies

By Scott Levine We usually spend most of our time around here talking about the comings and goings of things in our nighttime skies. This month, I thought, it’d be fun to skip past the evenings’ prime time and look

By Scott Levine If you need any more proof that summer is fleeting, as July becomes August we’re already in the last full month of summer. Maybe you’ve noticed that we’ve been slowly and steadily losing daylight since June’s solstice.

By Scott Levine Some of my favorite conversations about astronomy start with people asking about a group of stars, usually their zodiac sign, and then having a hard time seeing that figure mapped out in the sky. The word zodiac

By Scott Levine Every season, and even every month, have their own feel. Spring is different than summer, and there’s a certain indescribable difference between July’s and August’s muggy heat. The same is true in the skies. There are bright

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