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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.
