Uranus likely won’t be visible to the eye alone. But you’ll easily see red Mars near the moon on December 22, 23 and 24, 2020. Mars isn’t exactly blazing now. But it’s bright, and very red, still a stunning sight, high in the sky at nightfall. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-mars-uranus-december-22-24…
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Give the gift of Bill Nye with his virtual reality science kit
VR science kits will be all the rage this holiday season. Source: https://www.livescience.com/bill-nye-vr-kit.html
Watch for the moon and Mars
Use the moon to find the planet Mars on November 24, 25 and 26, 2020. Then use the planet Mars to find Mars and Uranus within the same binocular field in January 2021. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/watch-for-the-moon-and-mars…
November’s young moon and December’s Jupiter-Saturn conjunction
As darkness falls on November 18-21, 2020, use the moon to locate Jupiter and Saturn. Their conjunction will be December 21. Watch into December as these 2 giant worlds draw close! Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-jupiter-saturn-after-sunset…
Moon sweeps by Jupiter and Saturn October 21 to 23
These next several evenings – October 21, 22 and 23, 2020 – watch for the waxing moon to sweep by the gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-sweeps-by-jupiter-and-saturn…
Bill Nye to flat Earthers and science deniers: ‘It affects all of us’
“The flat earthers, the anti vaxxers, the anti maskers are not on board with the progress of science. And the thing is, it affects all of us,” Bill Nye said. Source: https://www.livescience.com/bill-nye-speaks-out-flat-earthers-science-denial.html
Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58
Michael Hawley, a computer programmer, professor, musician, speechwriter and impresario who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for what is now called the Internet of Things, died on Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 58. From a report: The cause was colon cancer, said his father, George Hawley. Mr. Hawley began his career as a video game programmer at…
Why The Navy’s UFO Videos Aren’t Showing Aliens
Syfy Wire’s “Bad Astronomy” column is written by astronomer Phil Plait, head science writer of Bill Nye Saves the World. This week he looked at the recently-declassified videos taken by the U.S. Navy’s fighter jets showing unidentified flying objects “moving in weird and unexpected ways.” (“The ‘aura’ around the object in some of the footage could simply be the camera overexposing…