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Digging Out
Snowcano
Putin Announces $50 Billion Toward Space Program
Andrew Wakefield Tries to Shift Blame for UK Measles Epidemic
When Federalists and the Federation Collide
The Streets Are Paved with… Vortices?
NASA 2014 Budget: More for Asteroids, Less for Planets and Education
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Gets Schooled on Science Funding
Immerse Yourself in a Virtual Aurora
The Secret History of the Splinter Galaxy
It’s Alive! ALIIIVVVEEE!
Upside-down Moonset
NASA May Be Towing An Asteroid to a Planet Near You
Doctor Who, Season 7, Part 2
Blue Skies Smiling at…Mars?
Comet Chaser
The March of Antireality Continues
Hubble Finds a Special Record-Breaking Supernova
Distant Stars Look Very Much Like Our Local Neighbors
Curiosity’s Parachute Flaps in the Martian Wind
The Comet and the Galaxy
Tantalizing Hints of WIMPy Dark Matter
WWCID? (What Will Comet ISON Do?)
Astronaut Chases a White Herring
A Distorted Galaxy And Its Cloaked Clouds of Gas
Cassini Spies a Forbidden Planet’s Flying Saucer Moon
Fires in the Sky
Crushing and Zapping and Impacting at the University of Illinois
Lenticular by Night
New Gullies Found in a Young(ish) Crater on Mars
The Dark, Dusty Graves of the GRAIL Spacecraft
Two Eclipses, Two Stories
I Can See My House From Here!
The Cold Fire of Orion
Citizen Science Maps Asteroid Craters like the Pros
The Magic of Physics: A Water Spiral
Seriously, Pan-STARRS Keeps on Delivering
The Universe Is 13.82 Billion Years Old
How Much Is a Supernova Worth?
Voyager 1 Has Apparently Left the Solar System [CORRECTED]
Black Hole Flings Companion Star at 2,000,000 Kilometers Per Hour!
Yet Even More Amazing Pan-STARRS Pix and Vids
Beautiful Pan-STARRS Time-Lapse Video
No, Global Warming Has NOT Stopped
Aleutian Sleuthin’
The Sun Woke Up Yesterday
Antivaxxers Using Billboards to Promote Their Dangerous Message
Happy Pi Day!
Go See Comet Pan-STARRS While You Can!
Ancient Mars Had Conditions Suitable for Life
The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11,000 Years
A Comet and Two Planets…Including Home
Saving the World From Asteroids
UPDATE: No, Life Has Still Not Been Found in a Meteorite
Howdy, Neighbor! New Twin Stars Are Third Closest to the Sun
The View from Above Our World
Hubble Shoots the Moon. Again.
The Everyday Solar System Challenge
Reflection and Emission
Antiscience “Academic Freedom” Bill Dies in Kansas
Get Ready For Comet Pan-STARRS To (Briefly) Grace Our Sky
Spinning Up a Storm
Europa’s Underground Ocean Surfaces
Hubble Spies a Space Invader
Venus… from Saturn
No, Our Solar System is NOT a “Vortex”
TWIST Episode 4: Will Mars Get Whacked by a Comet in 2014?
SpaceX Update: Dragon Now Mated to Space Station
SMBC Shoots the Moon
Looking Down Mount Etna’s Throat
BREAKING: After Initial Problems, SpaceX Dragon Now Looking Good On Orbit
SpaceX Ready to Launch Another Dragon to the Space Station
Mars May Get Hit By a Comet in 2014
Superfast Spinning Black Hole Tearing Up Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
Take THAT, Alien Scum!
TWIST Episode 3: INCOMING!
A Colorful Cloud Hints at a Very Violent Origin
Moon Rise over an Arsenic Lake
Attack of the Martian Tree Spiders!
OK, Here’s a (Mostly) Circular Volcano For Real
Movements in (Infra)Red
All That Plasma Will Be Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain
Monster Triplets Inhabit the Lobster Nebula
Astronomers Find the Tiniest Exoplanet Yet
Saturn Gets Kinky
An Asteroid's Parting Shot
Why Are We Suddenly Getting Hit By So Many Space Rocks?
TWIST, Episode 2: Printing a Lunar Colony in 3D
A Perfect Cone [CORRECTED]
[FOLLOWUP] Russian Meteorite Fragment May Have Hit Lake
Watch Asteroid 2012 DA14 Live As It Passes Earth
BREAKING: Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Sonic Boom Shatters
Windows (Updated)
Happy Cosmic Valentine’s Day!
No, An Asteroid Is NOT Going to Hit Earth in 2106
AMAZING Footage of a Satellite Deployment in Space
Darwin Day 2013
Happy 3rd Anniversary to SDO!
Everything You Need to Know About This Friday’s Close Shave by Asteroid
2012 DA14
A Song from Space
My New Video Science Series: TWIST
Nor’easter Bearing Down on the East Coast, Seen from Space
Protostar Throws a Rave
Marco Rubio: Another Senator Who Doubts Global Warming
An Alien Earth May Be in Our Cosmic Back Yard
The Ghostly Glow of the Sun's Breath
NGC 1309: Stepping Stone to the Universe
Colorado Creationism Bill Dies in Committee
Galaxy Zapped by Its Own Black Hole
The Roiling, Twisted Wreckage of a Solar Eruption
NGC 1309: Stepping Stone to the Universe
Vaccinating Against McCarthyism
Super Bowl Science 2013
Voyager into Stardust
A Monster Rises from the Sea in Japan
Monster Saturn Storm Chokes on Its Own Tail
A Sparkling Imposter
Silhouettes and Moonrise in Real Time
The Cold, Dusty Arms of Andromeda
More Evidence That Mars Once Had Flowing Water
Hot Stars Blow a Superbubble
Keep Your Eyes on the Stars
Drown Your Brain in the Whirlpool Galaxy
The Art of Our Pale Blue Dot
The Stunning Beauty of the Perfect Spiral Galaxy M74
BREAKING: Colorado Anti-Evolution Bill Is “DOA”
Two of Earth’s Moons in One Picture
Expanding Fireworks from a Century-Old Stellar Explosion
The Great Lakes’ Cloudy Streets
Science: Ruining Everything Since 1543
And These Are the People Making Laws in Louisiana
Betelgeuse Is About to Hit the Wall
Creationism Creeps into Colorado
Earth May Have Been Hit by a Cosmic Blast 1200 Years Ago
Was McLaughlin Crater on Mars Once Actually LAKE McLaughlin?
Phase of Beauty
To Surf a Hundred Million Stars
WANT: Part XV
Finding E.T.
Vouching Against Creationism
To Sail the Winding River of Light
A Puff of Celestial Smoke
No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite
Nessie Swims Between the Galactic Waves
A Volcanic Eruption, by Land and by Space
Debunking the Denial: “16 Years of No Global Warming”
Want Some Dust With Your Crab?
Time Lapse: Landscapes, Volume 3
Geronimo! Allons-y! Fantastic!
A Stunning, Sparkling Beehive Caught by Accident
GRAIL’s Stunning Parting Shots
Impact Threat from Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis in 2036 Now Ruled Out
Airborne Telescope Sees Matter Falling into A Black Hole
Science Getaways: Take Your Brain on Vacation to an Oregon Volcano
Sauron’s Got Some ‘Splainin to Do
The Wobbly Beam of the Vela Pulsar
NuSTAR’s Glimpse of Cosmic Violence
Alien Comets Swarm Around Other Stars
Our Galaxy Is Crammed Full of Planets
Ice Swirls off the Coast of Greenland…For Now
A WISE Flower Blooms in the Sky
Lunar Triple Whammy
The Year in (Bad) Astronomy Facts
A Sleeping Giant
Talking Tech and Science with Neil Tyson on "Star Talk" at Comic Con
The Milky Way's Old (and Huge) Faithfuls
It's All Uphill From Here: The Earth at Perihelion
The Sun Does a Dance on New Year’s Eve
Happy Restart of the Earth's Tropical Orbital Period!
On Approach to the New Year
The Earth’s Story in 60 Seconds
“Sun Storm” Airs on Discovery Channel Tonight, Dec. 30
When the Moon Ate Jupiter
Today’s Full Moon is the 13th and Last of 2012
Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
A Grasshopper’s Leap
Milky Way, Meteor, Meteorology
Happy Holidays from the Whole Universe
Contact: Fact or Fictional?
A Smoke Ring and a Shooting Star
A Dying Star Shoots Out a Cosmic Enigma
My TEDx Talk About Asteroid Impacts Featured on Huffington Post
Phew! One Less Asteroid Impact to Worry About
Happy Winter Solstice!
The Ghost of Doomsdays Past
Saturn’s Glorious Dark Side
The Top Astronomy Pictures of 2012
The Best Astronomy Images of 2012
Worried About the End of the World on Dec. 21? Don’t Be.
Space Holiday Gifts
Marco Rubio Backtracks a Bit on the Age of the Earth
Time-Lapse Video: Further Up Yonder
Video Tour of the International Space Station
The Grand Experiment Has Not Failed. We Have.
40 Years Ago Today: The Last Human Left the Moon ... for now
Geminids Rain Down Shooting Stars
Alien Nile: River of Liquid Methane Seen on Saturn's Moon Titan
Hubble Sees Tribe of Galaxies at the Dawn of the Universe
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks over the Next Few Days
Montana Microburst Flattens Trees like Toothpicks
A Tale of Three Craters
Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air
The Labor of Hercules A
“A Mote of Dust Suspended in a Sunbeam”
Sir Patrick Moore, 1923 - 2012
Hear My Sonorous Voice in Three Interviews
Charlie Talks Saturn
TEDx Talks: Some Ideas Are Not Worth Spreading
That’s No Moon … Oh Wait. Yes It Is.
Fly Me to the Moon
Careening Into the Carina Nebula
A Galaxy Takes a Bullet to the Heart
Green Bean Galaxy Is the Echo of a Dying Black Hole
The Earth Spins in the Black of Space
Recipe4Hope: Autism Science Foundation December Fund Raiser
Blowing a Cosmic Bubble
A Hawaiian Sunset Rainbow
Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery
Voyager 1 Spacecraft on the Doorstep to Interstellar Space
Curiosity Finds Cool Chemistry on Mars but No Organics
Tiny Galaxy Sparkles in Our Back Yard
Doubling Down on Climate Change Denial
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
Blowing the Dust Off a Spiral Galaxy
New Study Shows Global Warming Is Rapidly Melting Ice at Both Poles
No, NASA Didn’t Find Plastic Beads on Mars
New Data Show Mercury Almost Certainly Has Buried Ice at Its North Pole
Incredible Eclipse Video, Taken from 120,000+ Feet!
A Swollen Monster in the Middle of a Galaxy
The Ruins of Past, Present, and Future
"UFOs" Over Denver Bug Me
The Monstrous Eye at Saturn’s North Pole
Morgan Freeman Asks Questions
Mayan Notpocalypse
Time-lapse: Spirits
The Immense Beauty of Saturn
Time-Lapse Video: Island in the Sky
The Moon’s Youngest Crater
Angling in on a Massive Solar Eruption
Coming Home in a Blaze of Glory
The Hunter and the Meteor
To Stand in Awe Before the Universe
It's Just a Phase
What Did Curiosity Find on Mars? Wait and See
Stunning Solar Eclipse Picture and Videos
Why Doesn't Florida Senator Marco Rubio Know How Old the Earth Is?
Alien Worlds: Exoplanets in Pictures
Astronomers Take a Picture of a Planet Orbiting Another Star
The Desert Bus for Hope Charity, Featuring Me. Bid On a Meteorite!
Doctor Who Christmas Special Teasers
Dust. Wind. Dude.
How to Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower This Weekend
Is This the Most Distant Object Ever Seen?
Fly Through Space With 100,000 Stars
Planet in a Bottle
Portrait of a Titanic World
xkcd Explains How to Go to Space in Simple Language
Astronomers Find a Rogue Planet in Our Galactic Back Yard
... Attempt No Landings There
Watch Today's Solar Eclipse Live!
The Southern Skies, Lit Like Neon
Trailing Endeavour
Spectacular Chaos From Two Galaxies (Literally) in Flagrante Delicto
Thank you
Welcome to the Bad Astronomy Blog!
Revealed: My tattoo
A Refreshing Shasta
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk Radio Joins Nerdist Channel Network
Astronomy Podcast for Kids
Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!
Bouncing on the Moon
Uwingu Wants You To Submit Names for Their Planetary Baby Book
A refreshing Shasta
Nerd deGrasse Tyson
Astronomy podcast for kids
Repost: Carl Sagan Day
Moon bounce
Uwingu wants you to submit names for their planetary baby book
Getting closer: Super-Earth found in a star's habitable zone
Wanna see the space station overhead? NASA will send you mail!
A step in the right direction... but there are many more steps to go
Time lapse: Helvetia's Dream
Vote.
DC comics pins Krypton to the star map
Breaking up is easy to do. If you're a comet.
The single greatest vacation picture ever taken
The return of Something Fierce
Big news: Bad Astronomy is moving to Slate magazine
The Neroes of global warming
Reminder: Donors Choose
Purple shag Sun
Look! Up in the sky! It's...it's... it's an amazing optics display
They Came From Outer Space
A wind is rising
Looking up to Saturn
Time lapse: Close to the Heavens
Sandy's Big Night
Unfurled Aurora
The Dragon returns to the nest
Hurricane Sandy intensifies as it grows
Namibian quiver trees and the glow of a galaxy
The return of Sauron's planet
Frankenstorm and the Dragon
Awkwardly Embraceable interview
Hurricane Sandy looms over the US
Saturn storm cranks the heat WAY up
All These Worlds... 2013
OSU marching band boldly goes
A persistent Orionid
Space art competition for kids
Pew! Pew! Take *that*, Mars!
NuSTAR catches a black hole's hot belch
Oh, snap! Another X-class flare from the Sun
Flatly wrong global warming denial
Blue Origin successfully tests its crew escape system
Update: meteorite from California fireball recovered
Paul Kurtz, 1925 - 2012
Jenny McCarthy infects Chicago
From Here To Infinity
Moonbow, Milky Way, meteor
Endeavour's final voyage
The raw power of the Sun
Frigid, beautiful swirls
When galaxies strip for each other
While the Sun Was Sleeping
Bright fireball lights up northern California
Donors Choose 2012
Icelandic lights
PUNY Helicarrier!
Standing on Mars
ALPHA CENTAURI HAS A PLANET!
Space Leap of Faith
Animated transit of a Martian moon
My God, it's full of star trails
STEREO catches an eruptive prominence
Amateur planet hunters find a world with a four star rating
Astonishing all-sky aurora time lapse video
Hubble's Carineidolia contest
Like two trains passing in the night... a year apart
The funny thing about science
Nearly iceless Iceland and an icy island
Up, up, and aurora!
Science Ranch 2012
Big Picture Science: Doomsday live show
Wheels on Mars
Veronicarmageddon
A dying star weaves a spiral in the night
ISS^3
Curiosity got shaved?
The Sky Is Calling
Vaccines: opinions are not facts
One small tread for Curiosity, one giant leap for roverkind
SpaceX Falcon 9 lost an engine on the way up; Dragon on its way to ISS
Jaw-dropping rotating 3D nebula
SpaceX set to launch Dragon to the ISS tonight!
The US Congress Anti-Science Committee
The Church of Who?
Time lapse: Very Little Stars
The Universe is still expanding. As expected.
The Helix has pink eye
Time lapse: stunning Australian skies over a pathfinding array
To see little, build big
Q&BA: How do we know some meteorites come from Mars?
Incredible surreal volcanic riverscapes
The song of killer electrons
Edgy spiral
Why is the sky dark at night?
SpaceFest IV interview
The August solar eruption, in HD video!
The life of a star, in 14 minutes
A penetrating, double-ringed crater on Mars
Two talks in the Old Dominion!
Water bomb
UPDATE on the big UK fireball
Revealing the Universe: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field
Endeavour's last flight... seen FROM SPACE!
Angling in on Saturn
Social gadfly
Uwingu: how *you* can directly fund science
A whole star exploded, and no one told me?
That's not what the Batsignal is supposed to look like!
The puzzle of dogma
VERY bright and spectacular meteor seen over northern UK!
7000
A butterfly in the Swan
Let those global warming dollars flow
Ceci *est* une pipe
Looking down on the snow of Kilimanjaro
Hubble peers in on a galactic snack
Emerald Isle time lapse
Excavating a long-dead lunar fire fountain
Libration libretto
Jupiter gets rocked by an impact again
The brush strokes of star birth
Rocketfest!
A solar eclipse... FROM MARS!
A new space race?
... I'm just on my way up to Clavius
Symphony of Science: climate change
The subtlety of cosmic violence
The Sun glints off a water world