What to look out, and up, for in January as Ralph, Paul & Jen pick their highlights for this month’s skies.
Jan 3rd: Awesome Astronomy’s January Sky Guide
Tag: Mars
Dec 21st: Water On Mars? Not So Fast!
All planets with liquid water please raise your hand, don’t go chasing interstellar asteroids, and of course listener questions!
Dec 12th: The Planets, ICON 2017 & Mars!
This week we turn our steely gaze upon the red planet Mars, but we haven’t forgotten our promise to share some highlights from our time at the ICON Comics and Games Convention.
Dec 6th: Awesome Astronomy December Sky Guide
What to look out, and up, for in December.
Dec 2nd: Observing With Webb in December 2017
The holidays are upon us, and we have a great Geminid Meteor Shower, the winter constellations appearing, 2 or 3 morning planets, and a year-end occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon.
Dec 1st: Dean Regas’ “100 Things to See in the Night Sky”
Problems with WFIRST, Mapping the 3D motions of extragalactic stars, & Flowing rivers of sand on Mars.
Nov 26th: Mars Window & Gnats
In 2020 a good window for Mars launches will open by many countries and NHATS became the acronym for the Near earth object Human spaceflight Accessible Target Study.
Oct 14th: Martian Spiders
Astronomers discovered these mysterious structures called spiders on the south polar region of Mars
Oct 10th: Awesome Astronomy October Episode
Let’s say the next Mars rover that is tweaked to find life on Mars finds some microbial life what impact would that have on the whole Mars exploration plans?
Oct 7th: Observing With Webb in October 2017
We lose a couple planets in October, but Saturn and Venus continue to shine, with Mars getting brighter and higher in the morning.