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We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.

August 5, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope Movie

Explains a new movie of distant galaxies and remote time from the Webb Telescope.

July 18, 2023

The Webb Telescope has found a complex building block of life in a galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

July 4, 2023
The arrow points to the star that exploded

Astronomers have seen a star explode in a nearby galaxy. Such explosions are part of the recycling scheme of the universe.

May 28, 2023
The Earth Beyond the Moon from Hakuto-R

On April 20, the Japanese Hakuto-R spacecraft took a remarkable image of the Earth from orbit around the Moon, showing a …

April 27, 2023
Sample Tube Under Perseverance

What the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter have been doing on Mars.

April 4, 2023
The Andromeda Galaxy

Check out an Older Hubble Telescope Image that will Leave You Star-struck We astronomers often talk about the vastness of things …

March 17, 2023
Galaxies dominate this view from the James Webb Space Telescope

(And A New Science Fiction Story) Here is a new image that the James Webb Space Telescope people designated their “Image …

February 5, 2023
New Comet ZTF

There is a faint new comet in the sky, on an orbit that took it some 50,000 years to come in …

January 27, 2023

News of a PBS TV program on how first contact with an alien civilization might happen & a link to my latest science-fiction story on the same topic.

January 7, 2023
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