Category: Astronomy
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Meteor Showers in July: How and When to Observe, and What to Expect
I only recently put up a piece providing a look ahead to the month of July, but it was just an overview, so I’m going to cover one thing that I left out, the upcoming meteor showers. Meteors, of course, can be tricky to see. Looking at the sky from a city, especially if the…
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How the Sky Looks Using Binoculars: Galaxies, Nebulae, Planets and even Moons!
In most of my videos, I zoom in as far as is necessary to see whatever details I want to talk about. In real life, you are usually limited by the magnification of whatever instrument you are using, be it a telescope a binoculars. People don’t often associate binoculars with astronomy, instead binoculars normally get…
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Spiral Galaxies: You’re in One and How we Know
Today we are going to take another look at galaxies. We’ve looked at galaxies before, and you can take a look back through my archives for some examples, but thankfully they are a big topic, so there is plenty to talk about. We are going to be taking a look specifically at spiral galaxies like…
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Saghasanna Pláinéid nach bhfuil Againn: Iúpatar Te agus araile
In a recent video, I discussed the differences between the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. These two types of planets both contrast with the rocky planets in our solar system. This gives us three types of planets, though the gas and ice giants are commonly lumped…
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A Look Ahead to the Sky in July
As we approach the end of June, we’re going to take a look ahead to what’s coming in July. Of course, at the very beginning, the sky won’t look too different, but we will look through the whole month. We will still start at the beginning of the month and the beginning of the night,…
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Famous Star: Real Stars in Science Fiction
In the last piece, we took a look at some stars that were famous for moving quickly. The only one visible to the naked eye, 61 Cygni, is pointed out a the start of this video as well. Even though it has some unique features, it isn’t particularly well know. Some stars are incredibly famous,…
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Where you can See a Different Sky More Easily
Today, for this issue or installment, I decided to take a look at the sky from a couple of different locations and compare the kind of view that you can get. This is something that I regularly do as the sky does look from different places. Often, my focus is on comparing dark skies to…
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Icy Moons: What, Where and Why do we Care?
Recently, we took a look at the difference between the gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter and the ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. Today, we are going to look at something else icy: icy moons. We already passed by an icy moon in the ice giant video, Triton, Neptune’s largest moon. Triton is tough…
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Undiscovering the Planet Vulcan
Today, we are mostly going to take a look at some mistakes. Mistakes from the past can leave behind little quirks and inconsistencies in things we use today, and catching mistakes is often a good thing. Realizing that we were wrong about something can help us prevent similar mistakes in the future. This is inspired…
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Ice Giants versus Gas Giants: A Closer Look at the Biggest Planets
Every month or so, I usually make a video talking about a particular planet. beginning with several months ago, up Jupiter and Saturn in the past couple of months. Having looked at the gas giants, the ice giants are next. Before giving them a specific video, I though it would be nice to compare the…
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