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    Eye To The Sky

    Mercury's transit

    • MARTY SCOTT Eyes to the Sky
    • Nov 3, 2019
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    When a planet passes between the Earth and the sun, it sometimes passes directly in front of the sun. We call this event a transit.

    Fall equinox and observing solar movement
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    Fall equinox and observing solar movement

    • Marty Scott
    • Sep 29, 2019
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    Well, it is officially fall. Summer ended and fall began at 12:50 a.m. on Sept. 23, the fall equinox.

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    Light-years: Our present view of space is the light of its past

    • Marty Scott
    • Jun 30, 2019
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    An aspect of astronomy that has always fascinated me is that when we look at the sky, every object that we see above the Earth’s atm…

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    Exoplanet-hunting spacecraft counts other “Earths”

    • Marty Scott
    • Jun 9, 2019
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    There are eight major planets orbiting our sun. We know them as Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. We…

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    In the vast, not-empty interstellar medium, a star is born
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    In the vast, not-empty interstellar medium, a star is born

    • Marty Scott
    • Apr 28, 2019
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    The thousands of stars you see on a clear night are the same ones your parents, and your grandparents, and your great-grandparents s…

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    No fooling: Planet watching a hot prospect in April

    • Marty Scott
    • Mar 31, 2019
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    During the first nights of April, we can see all of the naked-eye planets. Mars is in the west during the evening, then Jupiter and …

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    Barring cloud cover, star Algol will wink at Earth in March
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    Barring cloud cover, star Algol will wink at Earth in March

    • Marty Scott
    • Mar 3, 2019
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    In ancient times it was believed the stars never changed. Today we know this is not true, and there are hints some ancient people al…

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    Kuiper belt huge, far-flung, full of objects to find
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    Kuiper belt huge, far-flung, full of objects to find

    • Marty Scott
    • Feb 3, 2019
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    Beyond the orbit of Neptune lies a large, cold region known as the Kuiper belt. Astronomers believe there are millions of small, icy…

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    Yearning for more daylight? It’s just a waiting game
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    Yearning for more daylight? It’s just a waiting game

    • Dec 30, 2018
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    You probably noticed this fall that the days were getting shorter and the nights were getting longer. You may have also noticed that…

    Probe seeks to answer burning questions about the sun
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    Probe seeks to answer burning questions about the sun

    • Marty Scott
    • Dec 2, 2018
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    The Parker Solar Probe may solve some decades-old mysteries about the sun. The sun not only provides the Earth with light and heat, …

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    Researchers reveal dark secrets of the universe

    • Marty Scott
    • Oct 28, 2018
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    Not only is Oct. 31 Halloween, more importantly — at least to astronomers — it is also Dark Matter Day. This observance is sponsored…

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    How to use a low-tech device called a planisphere
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    How to use a low-tech device called a planisphere

    • Marty Scott
    • Sep 30, 2018
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    In my last article I explained a high-tech solution to finding objects in the night sky. The example I used was an app called Star W…

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    Learning about the night sky is a snap with an app

    • Marty Scott
    • Sep 2, 2018
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    One of the real joys of astronomy is learning the night sky — but this can be challenging, because the sky is constantly changing. I…

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    Annual Perseid shower peaks in mid-August
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    Annual Perseid shower peaks in mid-August

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 29, 2018
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    Every year in mid-August, the Earth intersects the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, and the Perseid meteor shower occurs.

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    Night sky’s ‘movie’ reveals secrets of the universe

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 1, 2018
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    I always have mixed feelings about observing the night sky in the summer. The good news is that it is often clear and there is good …

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    Light pollution a serious problem

    • Marty Scott
    • May 27, 2018
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    One hundred years ago, on a clear night, you could see the Milky Way from almost any location in the United Sates. Today, most peopl…

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    Venus a hot place to visit, thanks to CO2

    • Marty Scott
    • Apr 29, 2018
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    During the month of May, Venus is high in the western sky at sunset. It is about 20 degrees above the horizon and nearly due west. I…

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    Inferiority is complex: How do Mercury and Venus orbit the sun?
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    Inferiority is complex: How do Mercury and Venus orbit the sun?

    • Marty Scott for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
    • Apr 1, 2018
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    Last month I told you how to find Venus and Mercury in the evening sky just after sunset. All we needed were a few clear nights to s…

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    Colossal forces create, collapse neutron stars

    • Marty Scott
    • Oct 29, 2017
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    The latest buzz in astronomy has been the discovery earlier this month of the merging of a pair of neutron stars millions of light y…

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    October stars tell ancient Greek tale of Andromeda
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    October stars tell ancient Greek tale of Andromeda

    • Marty Scott
    • Sep 29, 2017
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    As the Earth moves along its annual orbit of the sun, new constellations appear in the eastern night sky while old ones disappear in…

    Eye To The Sky

    Ways to observe the eclipse that are easy on the eyes

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 30, 2017
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    In three weeks Walla Walla will be treated to a near total solar eclipse. The rare event occurs the morning of Aug. 21.

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    Aug. 21 eclipse will be near total in Walla Walla
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    Aug. 21 eclipse will be near total in Walla Walla

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 2, 2017
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    At any given location on Earth, a total solar eclipse is rare. If you stayed at the same location your entire life, you might see on…

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    Shedding light on factors in upcoming total solar eclipse
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    Shedding light on factors in upcoming total solar eclipse

    • Marty Scott
    • May 28, 2017
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    You’ve probably heard a solar eclipse will occur in August and that the path of totality passes across the middle of Oregon. I plan …

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    The angle on summer’s warmth and winter’s cold
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    The angle on summer’s warmth and winter’s cold

    • Marty Scott
    • Apr 30, 2017
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    Many of us in Walla Walla think the best times to live here are spring and fall. Cold, snowy winters like the one we’ve just had and…

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    Ancient beliefs live on in night sky to the north
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    Ancient beliefs live on in night sky to the north

    • Marty Scott
    • Apr 2, 2017
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    On any clear night, if we go outside and look at the north sky for a few hours, we see that the stars are rotating around a point ca…

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    Conjunction function makes Mars, Neptune appear close together this weekend
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    Conjunction function makes Mars, Neptune appear close together this weekend

    • Marty Scott
    • Dec 31, 2016
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    Most of the stars that we see at night are called fixed stars. Even though they are moving, their distance from Earth is so great th…

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    The sun: A great bowling pin in the sky
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    The sun: A great bowling pin in the sky

    • Marty Scott
    • Nov 27, 2016
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    If you were to record the position of the sun in the sky at the same time every day for a year, you would discover that it does not …

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    Supermoon on Nov. 14 to be super-duper — largest since 1948
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    Supermoon on Nov. 14 to be super-duper — largest since 1948

    • Marty Scott
    • Oct 30, 2016
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    On Nov. 14 the full moon will be just 221,524 miles from Earth, the closest it has been since 1948. It will not come this close agai…

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    Tracking October sunrises, sunsets brings planetary bonus
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    Tracking October sunrises, sunsets brings planetary bonus

    • Marty Scott
    • Oct 2, 2016
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    Summer in the northern hemisphere is officially over and autumn began on Sept. 22, the fall equinox.

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    Earth-like planet found — but is it habitable?
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    Earth-like planet found — but is it habitable?

    • Marty Scott
    • Sep 4, 2016
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    For years astronomers have been searching for exoplanets — planets orbiting not around our sun but other stars. They have found thou…

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    Gravitational sweet spot opens window to new view of Earth
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    Gravitational sweet spot opens window to new view of Earth

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 31, 2016
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    This month NASA released a time-lapse video (link) of the Earth, taken over the past year. The 3,000-plus images that make up this v…

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    How the moon carries some pull with Earth
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    How the moon carries some pull with Earth

    • Marty Scott
    • Jul 3, 2016
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    Is there a connection between the moon and the ocean tides?

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    Our best peek at Mars in a decade begins tonight
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    Our best peek at Mars in a decade begins tonight

    • Marty Scott
    • May 22, 2016
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    The best views always occur at opposition: when Mars appears to be opposite the sun as seen from Earth. To see surface features, you will need at least a 4-inch telescope.

     

    March a moony month for Jupiter observers
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    March a moony month for Jupiter observers

    • Marty Scott
    • Feb 26, 2016
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    Now is a good time to watch the moon. Not Earth’s moon, but the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.

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    Orion’s hot young ‘stars’ visible in winter sky
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    Orion’s hot young ‘stars’ visible in winter sky

    • Marty Scott
    • Jan 29, 2016
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    It is not easy to be a stargazer in Walla Walla in the middle of winter. But if there are some clear nights in the next month or two…

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    Data trickle from Pluto reveals complex surface
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    Data trickle from Pluto reveals complex surface

    • Marty Scott
    • Jan 1, 2016
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    It has been more than four months since the New Horizons spacecraft had its close encounter with the (dwarf) planet Pluto, and I thi…

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    January is Venus’s month to shine for Earthlings

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    • Dec 27, 2013
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    During December when you looked to the southwest at sunset, you saw a bright star about 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon. It wasn

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    t really a star, but the planet Venus.

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