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Mars is hopping with company these days: the United Arab Emirates and Japan have launched spacecraft to the red planet and the Perseverance touched down…
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Get out and do a little stargazing on these clear nights ... but dress appropriately. (Roald Amundsen had the right idea in this photo).Meanwhile, Astro…
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As all Douglas Adams fans know, 42 is the answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. (It was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep…
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Mars will be as close as it gets to the earth this week.And it won't get this close again until 2035.And Bob King says it's really something you should…
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Make a note on your calendar right now: October 2.After all, your calendar should have some fun stuff, too; not just responsibilities and…
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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…
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The only good thing about nights where the air temperature is -20 and the wind chill is worse is that you can be pretty sure the skies will be clear for…
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You can worry about the planet Jupiter throwing "comets and asteroids toward Earth like a sniper," or you can worry about comets ("essentially asteroids…
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After a brief hiatus (twenty years or so) to do the newspaper thing, amateur astronomer Bob King returns to KUMD to talk about what we can see in the…
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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,…