Standing out as the premier object in this month’s Colorado sky is the “Planet King,” the mighty planet Jupiter. Visible in the southeast at the onset of darkness, Jupiter glows as a yellowish-white object astride […]
Out of the strange collection of heroes, heroines, animals and other assorted entities that make up the “star pictures” we have formed as the constellations of the night sky, none is stranger than the constellation […]
The premier constellation of the winter heavens is almost certainly the mighty Orion which currently glistens above the southern horizon in this month’s early evening Colorado sky. Aside from the Big Dipper, the Southern Cross, […]
For the past four months, Northern Colorado observers have been treated to an excellent apparition of the planet Venus, the third brightest object in all the heavens. Currently the Twilight Queen blazes in the southwestern […]
At or near the top of the list of most interesting celestial sights in the early evening November Colorado sky is a small, closely-packed group of stars popularly known as the Seven Sisters or the […]
In the vast expanse of autumn sky between the Summer Triangle stars of Vega, Deneb and Altair and the bright stars and constellations of the winter sky one can only find a few stellar landmarks […]
Of the myriad celestial wonders that greet observers of the late summertime Colorado sky, none is more impressive than the faint irregular band of light that we call the Milky Way. Stretching across the early […]
As Earth wheels about the sun in its vast, nearly 200-million-mile diameter orbit, from time to time it encounters dusty debris that has been boiled and blown from the heads of comets as they periodically […]
Quite often in astronomy objects which appear at first glance to be ordinary and uninteresting are very much the opposite in reality. Such is the case in this month’s Colorado sky for the seemingly unremarkable […]
One of the ways that astronomy is enriched and romanticized is through the stories behind how various stars in the night sky have received their names. Most of these tales are shrouded in mysteries that […]
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