May is looking to be a great month for catching up on constellations, enjoying the warm air, and checking out the Moon getting close to the planets.
May 4th: Observing With Webb in May 2019
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Apr 6th: Observing With Webb in April 2019
April is fairly non-eventful, except for the annual Lyrid meteor shower and some good close encounters between the Moon and Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and at least one rocket launch.
Mar 2nd: Observing With Webb in March 2019
A great morning lineup in the beginning of the month, all the naked-eye planets visible at some point in the month, and a great lineup ending the month is making March another great morning planetary astronomy month.
Oct 22nd: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely
How do we know what planets lights years away have in their atmosphere? What about the rocks all around Curiosity?
Oct 16th: Why Are Brown Dwarf Stars So Weird?
What do brown dwarfs teach us about stars? What do they teach us about planets? What keeps them warm, and how long do they live?
Oct 6th: Observing With Webb in October 2018
Get your last look at Jupiter while Saturn is staying up shorter amounts of time, the annual Orionid Meteor Shower and this year moonless Halloween skies.
Oct 2nd: What makes all the light?
What are the many sources of light in the universe? Why is a spectrum so important?
Aug 12th: Red Dwarf Planets & Fireball II
A search for habitable planet nearby and the discovery of fireball brighter than Venus
Jul 14th: Encore: NEID: A Precision Spectometer For Exoplanet Research
NEID spectrometer is being installed and it will soon start to search for exoplanets by using the Doppler, or Radial Velocity (RV), effect.
Jul 13th: Triplet Planets Found Around Newborn Star
There have been over 3,700 exoplanets discovered so far. Some seriously clever techniques have been used to hunt down these alien worlds. Astronomers define a new technique to discover baby planet!