After a little break (of 25 years or so) Bob King is celebrating his retirement with a return to KUMD's airwaves!
After almost 40 years with the Duluth News Tribune, Bob retired this month. But scratch a print guy and you'll find a radio guys; King and then-UMD Planetarium Director Glen Langhorst hosted Startalk on KUMD for several years in the early '90s.
The brand-new Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy will debut on Northland Morning at 8:20am New Year's Day, and return January 15 and January 29 at the same time.
Then the program returns in May for a full summer of stargazing!
About Bob
Bob King has enjoyed the night sky and astronomy since childhood but chose photojournalism as his vocation and made amateur astronomy a lifetime hobby.
He grew up in Illinois and received a teaching degree in German from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. After graduating, he worked as a photographer at the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette before moving to Duluth to work as a photographer and photo editor at the News Tribune. He retired from the paper in 2018 after 39 years.
Bob writes a regular astronomy blog called Astro Bob as well as articles for the online astronomy websites Sky & Telescope and Universe Today. He's taught community education astronomy classes at the UMD planetarium for many years.
He lives in Duluth with his wife Linda and has two children, Katie and Maria.
His book Night Sky with the Naked Eye is an activity-based book aimed at both beginning and amateur astronomers that guides readers to all the wonderful things visible in the night sky without special equipment. His second book, Wonders of the Night Sky You Must See Before You Die, is a bucket list of must-see night sky sights. Bob is currently writing a third book about modern myths about the cosmos.
