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Portland review of my talk of DEATH
Unhaunting a house
Why is the Sun so round?
Reminder: Uwingu enters final week
A lunar crater is graben the spotlight
A HUGE solar filament erupts into space
Debunking vaccine myths
Curiosity's self-portrait
Cruisegeddon
"Armageddon" had bad science. Shocker, I know.
Zoom in - and in and IN - on an Austrian glacier
The faces of Licinia
Skull flower
A little sunset CARMA
You Are the Future of Skepticism
Temba, his spiral arms wide
Awesomely blemished inverted solar beauty
Lo Stivale d'Italia
Time lapse: When the Moon ate Venus
I'm going to Space Camp!
Bill Nye: creationism is bad for children
Hurricane Isaac menaces the Gulf coast
Kepler finds a planet in a binary star's habitable zone
BAFact Math: The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter than the faintest object ever seen. Seriously.
Saturn's shadow slices the rings
Dragon*Con 2012
OK, *one* more Curiosity descent video
BAFact Math: The Sun is 12 *trillion* times brighter than the faintest star
you can see
Curiosity looks Sharp
Update: New NASA map of sea ice minimum
BAFact Math: The Sun is 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon
Arctic sea ice extent now at record low levels
Pow! ZOOM! To the Moon!
Neil Armstrong: 1930 - 2012
Jump!
Hubble's Hidden Treasures: winners!
Akin breakin' science
Two amazing Curiosity descent videos
When will we find life in space?
Curiosity rolls!
BAFact Math: Jupiter is big enough to swallow all the rest of the planets
whole
Multi-billion dollar traffic jam
Curiosity spins its wheels!
Talk Nerdy To Me: Solar Storms
Floating rocks in the ocean lead to an undersea eruption... seen from space!
Planetary alignment pyramid scheme
The silencing of hate
James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror is ready to go!
Now you will feel the firepower of a fully armed and operational Mars rover
Pamela Gay: Make the World Better
Watch as Curiosity touches down gently *and* its heat shield slams into Mars
ANIMATION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Star birth in the Scorpion
A fresh Martian impact
Blasts of high-energy radiation from Earth win a spot on a satellite
Perseids over Denver, from 14,000 feet
Curiosity's looking a little blue
What if all the Kepler exoplanet candidates orbited one star?
No, that's not a picture of a double sunset on Mars
Will we find life in space?
Perseid meteors peak over the next few nights
Get your badastro to Mars!
Home, from space: Earth Illuminated
An unreal Mars skyline
Saving space science - do you Uwingu?
First color 360-degree panorama from Curiosity
Dare Mighty Things
The Sun is shagadelic, baby!
Video of Curiosity saying bye bye to its heat shield
Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Global Warming?
Curiosity landing site: the whole mess
Stunning portrait of Earth from a new European weather sat
Nighttime view of Russian wildfires from space
Closeup up of a 7-quadrillion-kilometer-wide spider
VIDEO of Curiosity's descent... from the rover cam itself!
Curiosity update: Heat shield spotted!
Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down!
Humans send their Curiosity to Mars!
Watch the Curiosity hangout here!
Super hi-res sunspot
NASA chooses SpaceX to return US astronauts to space
Looking into Einstein's head (optical illusion)
Curiosity's chem lab on Mars
Incredible panorama of the summer sky
Curious about Curiosity? Here's info on where to watch!
A serene spiral with a double blast
Wil Wheaton has Curiosity
... and the flags *ARE* still there!
Portland, Oregon talk OF DEATH
Icebergs off Greenland
The scars of a Colorado fire
Southern skies time lapse: Nocturnal
Globsmacked
Helping save the planetary space program
There's a Zombie in My Treehouse!
Coathook to the stars
Attack of the Pluto!
High schoolers totally shred on a high-altitude balloon
Space Station Solstice
Greenland seeing unprecedented melting
Washington pertussis outbreak is very, very bad
Would you stand under a nuclear blast?
Discovery Channel telescope sees first light!
Deniers, disgust, and defamation
Time lapse: Sunshine over Earth
Raging clouds, near and very, very far
MSM tackles the need to explore... and gets it very right
Repost: What Apollo means to me
Mars Attacks of the Show
Time lapse: Within Two Worlds
Huge glacier calves off Greenland
Lightning strikes in a storm bigger than worlds
Video: SpaceX Dragon mission highlights
Atlanta Skeptics pre-Dragon*Con star party!
Saturn eclipses an icy moon
Shimmering purple aurora after a powerful solar storm
Comic Con 2012
Lapland lights
BAFacts: Halfway there!
Similar by eye, not by nature
NuSTAR opens its X-ray eye
Just another way cool night sky time lapse video
Join the Citizen Science brigade
Peaking into lunar craters
Up, up, and aurora
xkcd asks, "what if...?"
The softly glowing zodiac: lesson learned
A ray of coincidence
"How the Universe Works" Season 2 premier tonight!
A fifth moon for Pluto!
Close-up of a solar monster
Titanic antarctic vortex antics
HUGE sunspot group coming 'round the Sun!
BA book review: Year Zero by Rob Reid
Earthlapse
New research points toward "no" on arsenic life
The 50th anniversary of Starfish Prime: the nuke that shook the world
Innsbruck by night time lapse
The Sun speaks up
Milky Way Down Under
This Is Our Planet
Happy aphelion!
The Ghost in the Shell
Caption contest RIGHT NOW
Newborn star makes a cosmic bank shot
Come see my panels at Comic Con!
When does weather become climate?
Did a meteor plunge into the ocean near Perth? I'm thinking no.
A Megacynic? Me?
Piano sonata in the key of Kepler-11
Wait just a second! No really, wait JUST A SECOND
Ridiculously awesome photo and time lapse of a stormcloud at twilight
Boulder wildfire
Cannonball star blasts away from the scene of the crime
Huge lenticular cloud near Mt. Fuji
Privately and publicly looking for Earth-threatening asteroids
Stellar tantrum blasts away part of its planet's atmosphere!
Singing the praises of Carl Sagan
Virtual Star Party featured at big Google+ meeting
Teachers: help your kids detect cosmic rays
The galaxy that shouldn't be there
A light bending exercise... in space!
Landing on Mars: Seven minutes of terror
SpaceX successfully tests new engine (VIDEO)
In which I become... SPACE JUDGE
Bodies in space
Surreal Arctic time lapse
Pyrocumulus cloud
The Secret of Nym
Near-Earth asteroid twice as big as previously thought
Natural born scientist
A mini star factory lost in the sky
What to make of the Chinese space effort?
Science Getaways: Dark skies
An unusual view of the Death Star moon
It must be true. I heard it on the Internet.
Transit on the Midnight Sun
Shall I compare thee to a summer's solstice?
Followup: More pink aurorae
The ancient shields of paradise
The Milky Way and the Mashed Potatoes Mountain
Con and Prometheus
BAFact math: Give him an inch and he'll take a light year
Aurora, in the pink
Saturn, raw
That's snow small undertaking
Kickstart your way to an experiment on a satellite!
Mickey Mouse MESSENGER Mercury
Looking down into the throat of a lightning storm
Sandy art, kids' futures
Will we ever live on the Moon?
Towering transit of Venus
NuSTAR launches into orbit!
The Rocketeers
This is how you advertise science
Not vaccinated? No kisses!
Another spiral "UFO" lights up the sky. And it IS a spaceship.
The ups and downs of Saturn pictures
A moment of science
A Moment of Science
The softly glowing night sky
Venus orbital plane
Robbin' Robin
Shining shoes for NASA
Zen Pencils: Welcome to Science
Interloper of the Venus Transit
Did a telescope start a house fire in Arizona?
How could I NOT post this Venus transit picture?
Sic Transit, Glorious
Venus Transit LIVE
Redshirts
Buenos noches
WANT Part XIV: Citric acid for blood
Rocky Mountain (very) high
What did the 1882 Transit of Venus look like?
Timescapes 4k: a time lapse of super hi-res beauty
I've been Streamified
Astronaut opens up the window to see the Moon rise
Crotchety spacecraft
Dating an active volcano. And I don't mean metaphorically.
Hold on tight: in 4 billion years, we're due for a galactic collision!
History is made as Dragon splashes down safely in the Pacific!
Video of the daylight California fireball
Timeline for the fall of the Dragon
The art of exploring Mars
Everything you need to know about next week's Transit of Venus
Victoria, Australia government wants to stop free pertussis vaccines
Rainbow Pinwheel galaxy
Another tiny rock will pass Earth tomorrow
Memorial Day 2012
Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below
Your last chance to see Venus for the next few weeks
In which I SEE the light
Small asteroid to buzz Earth on May 28
Dragon is approaching the space station - UPDATED: CAPTURED!
Obi Wan better watch his back
SpaceX Dragon capsule buzzed the space station
Mars craters are sublime
OK, one more eclipse shot
Cateidolia
Saturn, surreally
SpaceX Dragon on its way to the ISS!
A fake and a real view of the solar eclipse... FROM SPACE!
The May 20, 2012 annular solar eclipse in motion
Eclipse followup part 2: tons o' links on how to safely watch
Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (of asteroid mining and Mayans)
SpaceX launch aborted; next attempt Tuesday
Followup: Supereclipse
Don't forget the Space X launch!
Andromeda's majestic spray of billions of hot stars
The closest supernova candidate?
As promised: Jupiter and moons seen by SOHO
Ring of fire eclipse on May 20
I was into astronomy when it was still astrology
Science Getaways: T- 4 months
Prairie Light: Alberta Aurora
The long reach of the Centaur's dark heart
Big Picture Science: Antivaxxers (and updates)
Help find Hubble's Hidden Treasures
If the Mayans were right, it was probably about Internet comments
WANT Part XIII: Moon throw
Psychedelic space station stars and cities
Space X set to launch on Saturday May 19
China's space lab has a spot in the Sun
Time lapse of the midnight Sun
Fire, water, and ice
Re-cycled Mayan calendar nonsense
Phyt O'Plankton
The start of a long, long dance
A banner day for me on reddit
Dawn flies over Vesta
Will ATK beat everyone into space?
Ice moon, ghost moon
Ho hum, another boring gorgeous sparkling beehive of stars
Asteroid, mine
Unstoppable
The darkness and the light
Spitzer sees the glow of a boiling planet
La Niña is dead - and good riddance
Solar Cinco de Mayo
Felicia makes my Day
FOLLOWUP: Heartland Institute's billboards are costing them donors
Parallel worlds
Astronomers find a galactic nursery 12.7 billion light years away
Deflated Supermoon
Jupiter, acting all superior
Dropping a dime on the Moon
The Point on asteroid mining and antiscience
The Heartland Institute sinks to a new low
A spiral that can beat you with two arms tied behind its back
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Pursuit of Light
Straightening up the cosmos
Colbert destroys Texas creationist Don McLeroy
Astronomers see ANOTHER star ripped apart by a black hole!
The Supermoon stuff? AGAIN?
Cold fire threads Orion's Belt
I'm giving a public talk in Boulder, Colorado on May 12!
Zen Pencils does Tyson
Followup: Antivaxxers, airlines, and ailments
Saturn broods while a storm dissipates
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.
Map and measure a million Moon craters!
Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft
Where in the Universe is Castalia Macula?
Angry Birds make Phil angry (kinda)
A red nursery with a long smoke stack
Q&BA: How many exoplanets have been discovered?
A land not too far away... I don't know. Maybe it was Utah.
More debunking of the ex-NASA 49 climate change deniers
Meteor, Crater
Come to Space Fest IV!
Happy 22nd, Hubble!
Breaking: Private company does indeed plan to mine asteroids... and I think
they can do it
UPDATE: Success with American Airlines Over Anti-Vax Interview!
American Airlines to air dangerous antivax propaganda
21812
Earth Day, from 40,000 km up
Venus, from one side of the Sun to another
Q&BA: Which moon has the best chance for life?
Desktop Project Part 26: Carina will keelhaul your brain
Rain on the Sun
Interview on The Alyona Show about our future in space
Desktop Project Part 25: Chaos in a galactic nursery
Space firm about to make a big announcement. I take a stab at what it is.
Buy cool stuff, support Astronomers Without Borders
Did a pilot really drop a plane into a nosedive to avoid Venus?
Desktop Project Part 24: A deep, dark mystery
Desktop Project Part 23: What are the odds of a satellite re-entering over water?
A stunning star factory for Hubble's 22nd!
Discovery makes one final flight... but we must move on.
A warm anniversary for Spitzer
A shadow falls on the ice geysers of Enceladus
GORGEOUS solar eruption!
The lovely faces and dark hearts of two galaxies
Desktop Project Part 22: A black hole belches out a hurricane
Desktop Project Part 21: Dancing in the dark filaments
Desktop Project Part 20: Angling in on a smoking volcano
Science Channel airing TED talks (including mine!) on April 15
Breath-taking climate denial nonsense, this time aimed at NASA
Desktop Project Part 19: Infrared Orion
Time lapse: Under the Namibian Sky
The look of a Titanic moon
Desktop Project Part 18: X-raying the Pac-Man nebula
Space Station star trails
Tennessee passes law allowing creationism in the classroom
Desktop Project Part 17: Sculpting Martian dunes
A moon casts a looooong shadow
A monster Martian vortex
Desktop Project Part 16: A dinky galaxy with a big gas problem
Surprise office rainbow
Whooping cough outbreak in Boulder
Desktop Project Part 15: The expanding Fireworks Nebula
Desktop Project Part 14: The cloud streets of southern Greenland
Desktop Project Part 13: Backyard Orion
ATV docks with the ISS
A nearby star may have more planets than we do!
Desktop Project Part 12: The galactic deep diver M9
Astronomer throwdown
Crowdsource: what are good astronomy books for kids?
Desktop Project Part 11: Upside down volcano plume
Q&BA: Can we build a space habitat?
Desktop Project Part 10: The crescent and the plume
To grasp a billion stars
NASA review of space astrophysics missions extends all 9!
Desktop Project Part 9: Again I see IC 342
The green fire of the aurora, seen from space
A weird and lovely spiral for your weird and lovely Monday
Desktop Project Part 8: From filament to prominence
Desktop Project Part 7: A new volcano parts the Red Sea. Kinda
Neil Tyson's congressional testimony
Desktop Project Part 6: Psychedelic topographic Moon
Rosetta: mission to land on a comet
Desktop Project Part 5: The mighty, mighty Dragonfish
Hear the Sun's roar
Desktop Project Part 4: Underwater volcano in teal
January's aurorae from way far north
Desktop Project Part 3: The massive massiveness of M54
Rekindled flame
Flushing out an equatorial fraud
NASA launches five rockets in five minutes!
Desktop Project Part 2: Unicorn, rainbow... soot?
The Red Planet, the Barred Spiral, and the Supernova
Go look at Mars!
Desktop Project Part 1: A weird Moon crater
The Amaz!ng Meeting 10: July 12-15, 2012
2012 International Earth and Sky Photo Contest
Celestial PhotoOp: The Moon slides in between Jupiter and Venus
The cloudy impact of Sikhote Alin
The Sun decided to blow off a little steam today. Twice.
More M95 supernova news: progenitor found!
An ultradeep image that's *full* of galaxies!
Tennessee legislature boldly sets the science clocks back 150 years
Venus rounds the corner
THIS is why we invest in science. This.
Revision to temperature measurements doesn't change global warming
The Sun is 1,392,684 +/- 65 km across!
Supernova 2012aw: the pictures!
Elon Musk of SpaceX on CBS's 60 Minutes
Blastr: In which I vaporize the Moon