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The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed safely on Sept. 24 with its precious cargo of pieces of the primitive asteroid Bennu. In honor of that and the other asteroid missions

This Thursday will be the start of the fall season of shows at the William M. Thomas Planetarium with "Mars One Thousand One" (or "Mars 1K1").

Next Saturday (Sept. 9) is the Dark Sky Festival at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks. There will be a keynote address by Dr. Cameron Hummels, the director of astrophysics outreach at

Well, the astronomy outreach about the Perseids was obviously successful because the observing site our local astronomy club, the Kern Astronomical Society, uses for observing was packed for the peak

Tonight the moon is in a waning gibbous phase, two days before third (or last) quarter. That means it will be just a waning crescent phase this Saturday night (the

A couple of days after I filed my July 2 column, my wife got a message from her aunt on her grandsons latest astronomy discovery about the origin of the

Taurus the bull is one of the most noticeable and well-documented constellations steeped in myth and legend and packed with fascinating cosmic objects.

The Equinox already happened, occurring on on Sunday, March 20, when the Sun crossed over the Celestial Equator heading North, and a balance was struck between day and night.

The Storytellers Night Sky Every Monday morning at 6:31 and 8:31, IPR News Radio looks into the night sky with Mary Stewart Adams, former Program Director and founder of the International Dark Sky Park at the Headlands, who has been telling stories of the night sky on IPR since 2013.  Ways to Connect

1:48 In the 4th century, a man named Lactantius who served as an advisor to Constantine, likened the return of new life following the Vernal Equinox to the mythic bird known as the Phoenix, which he immortalized in a poem designed to establish the reasonableness and appeal of Christianity to his pagan critics.  He wrote: There is a happy spot, retired in the first East, where the great gate of the eternal pole lies open. It is not, however, situated near to his rising in summer or in winter, ...