Perseid meteor shower

The Milky Way in late-dusk light; horizon of dark trees below

Environment & Outdoors

Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy: Milky Way on Display

Luke Moravec

Bob King recaps the Perseids and looks ahead to some planet sightings

Environment & Outdoors

Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy: Perseid Meteor Shower, Saturn and the Moon in Conjunction

Luke Moravec

Astro Bob tells all about the cosmic happenings coming up this weekend

Fireball in Perseids Meteor Shower, August 2015, over Sounion, Attica, Greece

Environment & Outdoors

Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy

Lisa Johnson

"Goin' nowhere ... in your reclining chair ...Spend an hour ... with the shower..."

Environment & Outdoors

Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy: clear day, schmear day - we need clear NIGHTS!

Lisa Johnson

It turns out that the worst enemies of star-gazers may be clouds - and clear skies. Clouds: well, that's obvious. But if that big ol' full moon is hanging…

Environment & Outdoors

Backyard Almanac - awesome, astrological August

Lisa Johnson

First, we've got a full moon August 7. Then the Perseid meteor shower August 11-13.Then the "eclipse of the century" on August 21, 2017.No wonder Larry…