With November, we take steps closer to the solstice. In the northern hemisphere, winter approaches in earnest; in the southern, the sun is welcomed back and temperatures continue to rise. The November night sky this month is also a time of astronomical activity, with active meteor showers, planetary close approaches, and even a few extra astronomical events […]
Thank you, we’ll be here all week. But seriously, folks, there are a ton of stargazer opportunities if you aim your telescope towards the icy planet this month. First, on November 8th, you will actually get a visible Lunar Occultation. These “lunar occultations of Uranus” actually happen all year long, but most of the time, […]
This summer has been the toughest in decades on Southwest Florida beekeepers, who were hit hard last month by powerful Hurricane Ian. As The Palm Beach Post reports, Ian came at a particularly bad time because beekeepers and honey producers rely on the late summer/early fall Brazilian pepper bloom. Now many of those Brazilian pepper trees […]
With November, we take steps closer to the solstice. In the northern hemisphere, winter approaches in earnest; in the southern, the sun is welcomed back and temperatures continue to rise. The November night sky this month is also a time of astronomical activity, with active meteor showers, planetary close approaches, and even a few extra astronomical events […]
The 2022 hurricane season isn’t over quite yet. The National Weather Service (NWS) is watching a tropical wave spreading from the Atlantic through the eastern Caribbean that may become a tropical depression early next week if conditions allow a well-defined center to form. The tropical wave, a group of showers and thunderstorms, is moving slowly westward […]
Auroras set off spectacular light shows in the night sky, but they are also illuminating another reason the ozone layer is being eaten away. As space.com reports, although humans are to blame for much of the ozone layer’s depletion, observations of a type of aurora known as an isolated proton aurora have revealed a cause […]
As AccuWeather reports, this 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has definitely been a roller-coaster ride. The season began with a quick burst of storms in June and early July and was followed by a historic pause in tropical activity from mid-July through the end of August before it ramped up dramatically in September. Hurricane season in the Atlantic […]
NASA has now set a new launch date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 moon mission. The mission is a first step in our human return to the moon. As EarthSky reports, Artemis 1 is now due to go up from Kennedy Space Center in Florida – without human passengers this time – at 12:07 a.m. […]
Hurricane Ian dealt a severe blow to hundreds of thousands of homes in Florida when it made landfall September 28 as a churning Category 4 monster of a storm. According to AccuWeather, storm surges in excess of 12 feet left many houses submerged in feet of water in just a short period of time. And the […]
A wave of chilly air swept across the Northeast and Midwest just in time for the arrival of astronomical autumn, which started on September 22, but the arrival of astronomical winter on December 21 may not start in a similar fashion. As AccuWeather reports, residents across the Northeast and Midwest will experience a few winter […]