Feb 26, 2026 | One Good Target, Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: Mercury begins the month barely hanging on in the evening sky: on March 1 it sets 57 minutes after the Sun and is less than 5° above the horizon a...
Feb 17, 2026 | One Good Target, Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: the planets have abandoned the morning sky. In the evening, Jupiter continues to dominate the scene like a playground bully, overpowering Uranus (who...
Feb 17, 2026 | One Good Target, Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: nearly half the planets are on vacation this month, hidden from sight in the Sun’s glare. Mercury might still be a viable (but difficult) target New...
Feb 17, 2026 | Rick's Picks
Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reasonto Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: the sunrise sky becomes a less lively place this month, as Venus ends its long morning apparition and joins Mars in the solar glare as they both head...
Jul 1, 2025 | Focal Plane
Not all telescopes use light to observe the universe. Some, like ice cubes, the RadioNeutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) and the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) look for neutrinos from distant, extragalactic sources by detecting their...
