Category: Astronomy Video
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The Geminids and 3200 Phaethon: December Meteor Shower
Today we are going to be looking at a meteor shower that is coming up in the month of December. Taking a look at the sky for mid-December, just coming up to 8 o’clock Gemini is already in the sky. We’re looking for the Geminids, the Geminid Meteor Shower and the radiant is up in…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Leonids and 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Today we are going to begin by looking back to the Leonid meteor shower which happened, which peaked just a couple of days ago. To see the radiant of this meteor shower nice and high, we need the constellation Leo to be up, which it is now at about 3 o’clock in the morning. With…
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Looking back: Halley’s Comet in 1986 and Comet Encke
Today, we are going to hop into the past, but we’re not going to go particularly distantly into the past. Going into the past isn’t something that I regularly do on this channel, but it is something that we have done before and I may do more regularly, there are some interesting things that have…
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An Eclipse from the Earth, Sun, and Moon: 2186 Eclipse!
Today, we are yet again heading far into the future to take a look at an event that won’t be occurring for hundreds of years. We are looking all the way forward to 2186 and we’re going to be looking for the 16th of July. Starting as normal, from Ireland and during the day, it…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: How Close will it Get? Plus other Comets!
Today, we are going to have a quick review of a couple of the major comets that have come through our sky in the past couple of months and will continue through our sky in a few months to come. We’re also going to take a look at one of those comets, 3I/ATLAS, from a…
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Meteor Showers, and More, in November
Today we will continue to look at the November sky. We are now into November and we’re going to start by taking a look at the sky on the 5th of November. Just as the Sun sets, the radiants of the first meteor showers of the month will already be up. Low in the east…
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From Dust and Gas to Rogue Planets and Brown Dwarfs
Happy Halloween everybody! This piece should be coming out before the 31st but this is the closest to Halloween that I will be posting. We’re going to go on a bit of a journey through a few things today. We’re starting by taking a look at the night sky for Halloween, moving all the way…
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A Preview of the November Night Sky
Today, we are going to take a look ahead to the coming month of November to see what the sky is going to look like and what kind of objects we’re going to be able to see. We’ll briefly start with sunset on the 1st of November. This is of course a reasonably similar sky…
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Asteroid 2025 PN7: A Temporary Moon
In several recent pieces we have taken a look at a few different comets and a lot of them were discovered just this year. For example, Comet 3I/ATLAS, which is an interstellar comet, it’s full name is 2025 3I/ATLAS, it was only discovered this year. In order to take a look at this comet in…
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