Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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When a planet passes in front of a star, the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere. Lines in the resulting spectrum occur where different elements absorb light at characteristic energies, indicating the composition of the planet's atmosphere.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Week 3 of waiting for the Tacca bloom to fully open
Saturday, October 26, 2024
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Week 2 of the Tacca Chantrieri about to bloom
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
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My Tacca Chantrieri is about to bloom
Saturday, October 12, 2024
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Time for blood on the ice again
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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The constellations Carina, Vela, and Puppis make up Argo Navis, the mythical ship. Argo Navis was one of the 48 constellations listed in the Almagest.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
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Friendly reminder that the common cold never went away
Saturday, September 28, 2024
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The plants in the garden that are still alive are looking great
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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The observable universe is the spherical region around Earth from which light has had time to reach us since the universe began. The boundary is called the cosmic light horizon.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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First rain in 6 weeks makes sure to arrive just in time for Arlington Town Day
Saturday, September 14, 2024
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Entering week 6 without rain in garden
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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The far-southern constellation Tucana is to be found at the end of the celestial river, Eridanus. It represents the large-beaked tropical bird that is native to South and Central America.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
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I got nothing today
Saturday, August 31, 2024
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Getting ready to shelve the white accessories for the season
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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In 1610, Galileo's telescope revealed that the milky smear across the night sky is not a nebula but a field of tiny stars. Immanuel Kent guessed that the stars form a rotating disk and that the Earth is inside it.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
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It's dark at 7pm now
Saturday, August 17, 2024
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I saw neither meteors nor auroras from my yard. I'd like to speak with the manager.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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A dense ball of 10.5 million stars, Omega Centauri is the biggest and brightest of about 200 globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. The average distance between its stars is just one tenth of a light year.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
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Amazing how much better the garden looks when it rains
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It's Too Hot
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Comet Encke was "discovered" in 1786, 1795,1805, and 1818 by different astronomers. These comets were found to be the same only after orbital calculations in 1819 by the German astronomer Johann Encke, who then predicted its return in 1822.
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Floating in an inner tube on a pond in Maine
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Watch Out For Trees
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Retrograde motion is an effect of changing perspective. Inferior planets Mercury and Venus show retrograde motion on either side of inferior conjunction. They "overtake" Earth as they pass between Earth and the Sun.
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Is it Massachusetts or Florida outside?
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Planespotting Tales
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First discovered in 1826, the Bug Nebula is one of the brightest planetary nebulae. The central star is thought to have an extremely high temperature, and its intense heat lights up the surrounding stellar material.
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Lisa's college radio career turns 35 today
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Summer Solstice happened on Thursday at 4:50pm. It was the earliest solstice since 1796.
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RCW 49 is one of the most productive regions of star formation to have been found in the Milky Way. It spans a distance of about 350 light-years, and it is thought that over 2200 stars reside within it.
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Heat Dome Incoming
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Somebody is eating the succulents out in the yard. Probably not the rabbits, we have a neighborhood fox now.
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Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe. The giraffe's long neck can be visualized as stretching around the north celestial pole toward Ursa Minor and Draco.
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Hope you are out enjoying this day!
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Memorial Day weekend, it's the official start of the summer season so get the tomatoes in the ground and the white shoes out of the closet
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The Horsehead Nebula is lit by a quintuple star system that bathes the clouds in UV light. Sigma Ordonis A and B are an orbiting pair of blue stars; C,D, and E will eventually spin off as solo stars
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Well today certainly turned out to be yucky
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Have started the planting cycle. Probably cheaper than a gym membership.
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NASA has created a visualization of what it would be like to fall into a black hole. It is worth those 40 seconds of your life.
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How about those Celtics?
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I spent a lot of money at the garden store yesterday. Now I have to haul heavy bags of dirt around to plant it all. I suppose it's cheaper than a gym membership.
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Albireo is regarded as one of the finest multiple star systems in the night sky. It consists of a golden-colored giant star and a cooler blue-dwarf star. Albireo is easily separated through a small telescope.
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Vinylthon aka Things I Never Had a Digital Copy Of At Hand aka Timewarp Back To 1990
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The eclipse was awe-inspiring, but right now I'm more thrilled that the forsythia is blooming this year.
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Little is known about dark energy, except that it's repulsive. This strange force causes matter to scatter rather than attract. Dark energy makes up 68% of the universe's mass-energy density.
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The next total solar eclipse that can be seen from the continguous United States will be on Aug. 23, 2044
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One could argue that it's women's week every week here on WMBR on Saturday afternoons
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Enaiposha is 3 times bigger and 8 times as massive as Earth. The planet's density means a chunk of it must be lighter than rock but heavier than gas. It is likely that Enaiposha is a water world.
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This is music, it should fill 2 hours
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Lots of April things spotted in the garden on March 16
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3C 273 is the brightest quasar in the sky and the second to be discovered. In 1963, Cyril Hazard used an occultation by the moon to establish its position.
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I can really use that extra hour tonight, except I've just been told that I am having a moment and the clocks go ahead. Yes, they do....sunlight at 6:30pm tomorrow!
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I did not get a new Planting Zone
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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The Carina Nebula boasts three rare Wolf-Rayets (WR), the hottest stars in the universe. They illuminate and ionize a dark nebula called a Bok globule.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
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Time Warp to 1997
Saturday, February 17, 2024
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Last of the duets
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Unusually, Gamma Velorum, a blue star, has been recently renamed. Its new name Regor, "Roger" backwards, honors Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
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I am glad it is going to snow and be cold in February because it's winter and it's supposed to be like that
Saturday, February 3, 2024
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Last of the Australia stories
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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The Cat's Eye nebula is one of the most complex of all planetary nebulae, possibly due to the interaction of a close binary system at its center.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
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I got nothing
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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Puppis is a rich southern constellation straddlng the Milky Way that was originally part of the ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis until it was divided into three parts in the 18th century
Saturday, January 13, 2024
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It would be nice to have some cold weather to kill off all the ticks
Saturday, January 6, 2024
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What is this thing called a studio?
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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The distinctive shape of the stunning Hourglass Nebula has fired much debate over its formation among astronomers.
Saturday, December 30, 2023
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Back from travels with all the stories
Saturday, December 23, 2023
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There is music on the radio right now
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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I am too tired to go get the astronomy book off the shelf so everybody gets to make up their own fun space fact this week
Saturday, December 9, 2023
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Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 2
Saturday, December 2, 2023
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Death Car Favorites 2023 Part 1
Saturday, November 25, 2023
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Last "Live in Studio" show for a while
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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Ensisheim is the oldest meteorite fall that can be positively dated. It was carefully preserved by being hung from the roof of the parish church in Ensisheim, Alsace.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
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Somehow it got to be Thanksgiving already
Saturday, November 11, 2023
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The Christmas cacti are blooming
Saturday, November 4, 2023
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Did you know it's fundraising week? I bet you didn't know it was fundraising week. Guess what? It's fundraising week.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
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Why are leaves falling on a nice, early summer afternoon?
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Saturday, and It's Raining Again. We've Returned to Days Ending in "Y"
Saturday, October 14, 2023
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It's Saturday and it's not raining. Clearly not a day ending in "y"
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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Soggy Weekend. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
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Another soggy weekend
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Autumn equinox happened at 02:50 this morning
Saturday, September 16, 2023
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
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There's Nothing Quite Like A Fire Alarm In a Torrential Downpour
Saturday, September 2, 2023
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A lovely day to be in the basement
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The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
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Not in the mood to type in this playlist
Saturday, August 19, 2023
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Did it rain again? I think it rained again. I'm pretty sure it did.
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Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
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Back from Maine, now broadcasting live from Walker Basement
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Floating in an innertube on a pond in Maine
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In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.
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Submitted without comment
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The calla lilies bloomed
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Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.
