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“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
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 12
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
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 11
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
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 9
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
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!
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 4
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
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 3
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
Life After Paranormals: Season 2, Episode 2
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!