Colorado Skies
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Colorado Skies: The mighty planet Jupiter
Standing out as the premier object in this month’s Colorado sky is the “Planet King,” the mighty planet Jupiter. Visible…
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Colorado Skies: Bernice's Hair shines in evening sky
Out of the strange collection of heroes, heroines, animals and other assorted entities that make up the “star pictures” we…
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Orion on display above the southern horizon
The premier constellation of the winter heavens is almost certainly the mighty Orion which currently glistens above the southern horizon…
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Colorado Skies: Venus shines bright
For the past four months, Northern Colorado observers have been treated to an excellent apparition of the planet Venus, the…
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Colorado Skies: Seven Sisters a starry watering can
At or near the top of the list of most interesting celestial sights in the early evening November Colorado sky…
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Colorado Skies: What's up with the "Great Square"?
In the vast expanse of autumn sky between the Summer Triangle stars of Vega, Deneb and Altair and the bright…
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Colorado Skies: Behold the wonder of the Milky Way
Of the myriad celestial wonders that greet observers of the late summertime Colorado sky, none is more impressive than the…
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Colorado Skies: Perseids to visit the Colorado sky during the second week of August
As Earth wheels about the sun in its vast, nearly 200-million-mile diameter orbit, from time to time it encounters dusty…
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Colorado Skies: Saturn's rings a beautiful sight
Quite often in astronomy objects which appear at first glance to be ordinary and uninteresting are very much the opposite…
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Colorado Skies: Red supergiant Antares shines bright
One of the ways that astronomy is enriched and romanticized is through the stories behind how various stars in the…