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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
Lost on the pizza moon
Stunning Jupiter and Io picture: here's the scoop
Breaking: possible supernova in nearby spiral M95
Rob Reid destroys the movie industry piracy claims
Galactic arch over the conjunction
Sweeping away equinox silliness
A brief bit about asteroid 2012 DA14
Paradise above and below
Faith and begaurora
Time Lapse: The stars, from orbit
Snapshots from Space
WANT: Part XII
BAFact math: how big does the Sun look from Pluto?
The Sun ate another comet
Pic of pairs of planets and people
TED talks now on Netflix... including mine
BAFact math: How bright is the Sun from Pluto?
Turn up your speakers and take a wild ride on a Shuttle solid rocket booster
The Sun's angry red spot
Happy 10th anniversary, SpaceX!
The Moon's history of violence
Jupiter and Venus still blaze in the west
MSNBC interview: 2012, the year the Earth doesn't end. Again.
When the Earth photobombs the Sun
An enigmatic blue bubble in space
US manned spaceflight infographic
Louisiana fights back against creationist legislators
SciFi Airshow
Help find an alien moon
A warm greeting for the frigid Moon
Will I be at SXSW? You bet your asteroid I will!
Jaw-dropping Moon mosaic
Cool animation showing asteroid DA 14's near miss next year
My Nerdist episode is online!
LRO zooms in on Apollo 15 once again
HD footage of last night's flare
Eyeballing the iPad 3 retina display
Between the Devil and the deep Red Planet
Labors of the Hercules Cluster
The Sun unleashes an X5.4 class flare
Your chance to lick Pluto
Asteroid 2011 AG5: a football-stadium-sized rock to watch carefully
Get a weekly dose of deep-sky beauty
Verdant volcano in a silvery sea
No, asteroid 2012 DA14 will not hit us next year
How to get kids to think critically
My Late Late Show segment is now online
Stunning time lapse video: The Light of Stars
NASA Goddard rocks the Moon
Reminder: Nerdist podcast Friday live in Boulder, with me!
Worlds bigger than worlds
Download the Universe
Why we have leap days
Making "Astronomer's Paradise"
I'll be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Wednesday night!
Pump up the galaxy
Q&BA: The Science of Science Fiction
Zen Pencils and words of wisdom
Frosty blue dunes on Mars
Special Q&BA tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST!
The rocket, the laser, and the northern lights
See Venus in broad daylight today!
Dot Con 2012!
Satellite tumblr
Debunking doomsday
Happy 25th anniversary, Supernova 1987A!
Unconfirmed rumor: FTL neutrinos may be due to a faulty GPS connection
Wanna dispose of some sodium? Na.
Randall Munrion
The two tails of Comet Garradd
Super-Earth exoplanet likely to be a waterworld
Moon bites multicolor Sun... from space!
Breaking news: Heartland leaker is scientist Peter Gleick, says documents are
all real
Time lapse: Epic Skies
International Hollywood Star Registry
Q&BA: How does a gravity slingshot work?
A dying bloom in space
Giovanna slides into Madagascar
Dark matter, apparently, is midichlorians
A typical day at Keck
White-laced boot
Breaking news: A look behind the curtain of the Heartland Institute's climate
change spin
Temporal Distortion
The hearts of space
Q&BA: Why spend money on NASA?
White House asks for brutal planetary NASA budget cuts
A dying star with the wind in its hair
Maiden flight for ESA's Vega rocket tonight
Another interactive way to scale the Universe
An ear to the ocean
The staring eye of a crescent moon
A hoopy frood
When the Moon hits your apse in a way-cool time lapse
Volcano in taupe
I'm giving a talk at Eastern Michigan University Feb. 15
Funhouse galaxy
Science Getaways: Update
Exoplanet in a triple star system smack dab in the habitable zone
Hey, I can see my snow-covered house from here!
Appalachian nocturne: a tour of the eastern US from space
OK, a couple of more things about a Moon base
Superbowl science 2012
An astronomer's paradise
Get Scott Sigler's The MVP for $3 off
Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL/Ebb
In the dark abyss, a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way
East of the Blue Marble
Q&BA: Pound for pound, are humans hotter than the Sun?
A case study of the tactics of climate change denial, in which I am the
target
Give Pluto your stamp of approval
What caused the Little Ice Age?
Amazing moonset video taken from space!
Q&BA: What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space?
Does the planet Fomalhaut b exist?
Q&BA: Getting kids into science
While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower
Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video
Dione and Mimas have a mutual event
Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism
Real time footage of aurora shows them dancing and shimmering
The Sun's still blasting out flares... BIG ones
The Gingrich Who Stole The News Cycle
Siriusly twinkling
Rosetta's stunning Mars
Two lovely aurora time lapse videos
Five shots against global warming denialism
Mosaic of home
Spectacular site for Supernova 2012A
Interview on KPCC about the flare and aurorae
Will you see the lights tonight?
The Sun aims a storm right at Earth: expect aurorae tonight!
Independent researchers find no evidence for arsenic life in Mono Lake
Q&BA full video chat session online
Wait just a (leap) second
Live Q&BA video chat today at 20:00 UTC!
Superb time lapse: "My Soul"
Time lapse: Yosemite
CSU Pueblo talk January 25
2011: The 9th hottest year on record
For moons, size does matter
The Sun fries a comet and we got to watch
Weekly Space Roundup for January 19, 2012
A planet boils away under its blow-torch star
The Helix screams in infrared
Incredible time lapse: Milky Way over Africa
SOPA and PIPA
Carcineidolia
What happened to Phobos-Grunt?
Skeptic Zone interview: Doooooomsday
Time lapse: Chinese rocket caught on video
Phobos-Grunt to come down today
Rapturday
Stunning view of a bloom from space
Exoplanet news Part 4: More wretched hives of scum and villany
Exoplanet news part 3: There may be hundreds of *billions* of planets in our
galaxy!
Nerdist + Boulder + ... me!
Exoplanet news Part 2: Exosaturn!
Exoplanet news part 1: I shall call it Mini Solar System
Brian Brushwood is super cool
Peering down onto an ancient Australian impact
George Hrab in concert: 21812!
As from above, so from below
Sunset on an alien world
I am the Piano Doctor Man
The odds of successfully surviving an attack on an Imperial Star Destroyer
are approximately...
No, SETI has not detected an alien signal from a Kepler planet
Google+ astronomy weekly roundup video now online
The immensity of Saturn
Live weekly astronomy roundup on Google+!
Alphas in the heart of the Omega
Doomed Russian Mars probe seen from the ground
Announcing BAFacts: a daily dose of sciencey fun
Perihelion: The Earth is on its way back out again
Quadrantids meteor shower peaks - briefly - tonight
Sometimes a cigar galaxy is just a cigar galaxy
A nearby star rings in the new year
NASA sends GRAIL shaped beacon to the Moon
Another orbit? Why, you don't look a rotation older than 4.56 billion years!
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 5
Gorgeous globular hides hundreds of rejuvenated stars
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 4
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 3
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 2 (Part 1)
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 2 (Part 2)
Life After Paranormals: Season 1, Episode 1
WISE finds the very first Earth Trojan asteroid
Squishy moonrise seen from space!
Actually, if you're a comet, it *is* easy being green
100 years ago today: KABLAM!!!!!

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