StarDate Podcast

Zosma

Over the millennia, stars acquire a lot of names. Some make sense, some don’t. And some of them...

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant is best known for his ideas about philosophy, from ethics to the nature of...

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• 2 días

Moon and Spica

Few constellations have as many backstories as Virgo, the virgin. In ancient Greece and Rome, it...

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• 3 días

Looking Up

If you look straight up as the sky gets dark this evening, you won’t see much of anything. The...

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• 4 días

Kochab

The Little Dipper is famous for the star at the tip of its handle: Polaris, the North Star....

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• 5 días

Lyrid Meteors

The Lyrid meteor shower is building toward its peak, on Sunday night. The Moon will be almost...

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• 6 días

Galactic ‘Twin?’

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It’s about 200,000 light-years...

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• 7 días

Moon and Leo

The heart of the lion stays close to the Moon the next couple of nights. The bright star that...

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• 8 días

Jupiter and Uranus

Two giants of the solar system huddle close together in the evening twilight the next few days....

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• 9 días

Arcturus

The star Arcturus is a little bit heavier than our own star, the Sun. Yet that small difference...

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• 10 días

Moon and Gemini

The Moon creeps up on the twin stars of Gemini this evening. As night falls, Pollux and Castor...

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• 11 días

Vanishing Hunter

This time of year is pretty inviting for some evening skywatching. The evening hours are warm but...

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• 12 días

Vaporized Planets

Planetary systems can be violent. In our own solar system, for example, the Moon probably was...

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• 13 días

Vaporizing Planet

Planets like Earth live in the “Goldilocks zone” — the region around a star where conditions are...

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• 14 días

Seeing Giants

If you heat up some alphabet soup, you shouldn’t end up with all the letters clumped together —...

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• 15 días

Moon and Planets

Europa is one of the more intriguing bodies in the solar system — and one that scientists are...

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• 16 días

Future Eclipses

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a big event this afternoon — a total eclipse of the Sun....

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• 17 días

Total Eclipse

It’s almost time for the year’s big celestial event: a total eclipse of the Sun. Tomorrow...

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• 18 días

Eclipse Flights

In the mythology of ancient Egypt, Apep was the serpent god — the rival of Re, the sun god. He...

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• 19 días

Eclipse Animals

Colonial orb-weaver spiders may have some extra work to do on Monday, during a total solar...

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• 20 días