Jupiter

The sky was just begging us to get out and look at it last week.From the weekend auroras and the waxing crescent moon to the upcoming waning crescent moon…

Who can blame us if 2020's making us a little slap-happy?Yes, there is an (itty-bitty) asteroid headed for Earth.But it's only 6'6" - half the size of a…

Comet NEOWISE is beginning to fade, although it's still visible through binoculars. Bob King's got a map to help you find it through the rest of the month…

We finally have some clear nights in the forecast, and the timing is perfect to see Comet NEOWISE.By the way, star gazing is a social-distance-friendly…

You can worry about the planet Jupiter throwing "comets and asteroids toward Earth like a sniper," or you can worry about comets ("essentially asteroids…

Despite what seems like a never-ending stretch of clouds and cool temperatures, Bob King says get outside after 11pm (twilight is extra-long these days)…

It's a wide-ranging edition of Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy today: from the weather to the conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the moon to the…

The earth is as close to the sun as it gets today -- and after the latest sunrise of the year (7:54am) , the sun will come out - tomorrow - a little bit…

Even as he was being devoured alive by mosquitos, our intrepid Backyard Almanac host, Larry Weber, reported some weather stats for the first half of July,…

We're finally caught up on moisture for the month; yes, snow in April is "normal;" we'll have 14 hours of daylight come Sunday and the white pelicans have…