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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.
