What’s Up – 365 Days of Skywatching… the Blog
Tammy Plotner’s What’s Up articles and book have been so successful, I’ve decided to spin the column off as a separate blog, broken down into daily entries. This lets us have one entry for each day of the year, with a few photographs… every day. Tammy will also be posting additional entries for late breaking news, aurora sightings, sunspot activity. I’ll still be highlighting the articles, but I’ll be forwarding readers over to the blog from here on out. Each blog posting will also link to a special section of the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum, so you can chat with other astronomers about how your stargazing is going.
Recent Posts
Did You Hear Webb Found Life on an Exoplanet? Not so Fast…
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Vera Rubin’s Primary Mirror Gets its First Reflective Coating
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Two Stars in a Binary System are Very Different. It's Because There Used to be Three
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The Highest Observatory in the World Comes Online
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Is the JWST Now an Interplanetary Meteorologist?
The JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope's latest act of outdoing itself, it examined…
Solar Orbiter Takes a Mind-Boggling Video of the Sun
You've seen the Sun, but you've never seen the Sun like this. This single frame…