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A Two-fer Cosmic Postcard
February 22, 2026 - Today's Cosmic Postcard comes to us from the constellation Puppis. It may not be super obvious but the slight concentrat...
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A Gamble that Keeps Paying Off
January 17, 2026 - It occurred to me that it's been 30 years (!) since this groundbreaking image was made. Known as the Hubble Deep Field (...
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"New" Star in our Neighbor Galaxy
December 19, 2025 - The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31) is our nearest neighboring large spiral galaxy, much like the Milky Way where w...
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Two Comets
December 17, 2025 - These are a couple of faint comet I was able to image recently. The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is now nearly at close...
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Impressive Sunspots
December 08, 2025 - Although the Sun has been ramping down from maximum activity there have been some especially large sunspots recently and...
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A tale (tail?) of two comets
November 14, 2025 - These are a couple of the brightest comets in the sky right now with a few interesting details. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) recent...
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Ghostly clouds of gas and dust in Cassiopeia
November 08, 2025 - Ghostly interstellar clouds known as IC 59 and IC 63 in the constellation Cassiopeia in the light of hydrogen taken from...
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An interesting juxtaposition
November 03, 2025 - Many objects appearing close to each other in the sky are in fact quite far apart.
Here's an extreme case: The fuzzy bl...
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A Postcard from Very DEEP Space
November 01, 2025 - Yes, it's filled with stars. But one star in particular has a pretty interesting story, and I was especially pleased tha...
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Stellar Evolution in Action
October 30, 2025 - The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) in our Milky Way galaxy, 4,700 light-years away toward the constellation Cygnus. This ima...
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The Magnificent Rosette
October 27, 2025 - The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2238) is a perennial favorite deep sky target. This is a composite of images made with both a mo...
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A Pair of Hairy Stars
October 26, 2025 - Apparently the origin of the word comet is from their description as "long-haired stars" (kometes in greek). Two comets...
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An Interstellar Interloper
September 23, 2025 - I was pleasantly surprised to be able to image a rather unusual object, known as 3I/ATLAS. It's likely a comet, but visi...
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A Telltale Sign of Baby Stars
September 22, 2025 - Today's Cosmic Postcard is a region of active star formation known as IC 5070 (aka the Pelican Nebula) in the constellat...
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A Not So Bright Comet
August 19, 2025 - It may not look like it but this is the brightest comet in the sky right now. Known as C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), it's a primord...
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A (relatively) Bright Supernova
August 17, 2025 - The brightest supernova in the sky right now, known as 2025rbs in the relatively nearby spiral galaxy NGC 7331. Still a...
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A Dark Spot in the Mily Way
August 17, 2025 - Tonight's Cosmic Postcard comes from the heart of the Milky Way toward the constellation Sagittarius, a compact clump of...
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Stars being born in the Pelican!
August 14, 2025 - Today's Cosmic Postcard is a region of active star formation known as IC 5070 (aka the Pelican Nebula) in the constellat...
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Southwest Dark Skies
October 26, 2024 - Before comet mania took over recently, I was able to spend a few days and nights under the clear, dark skies of southeas...
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Hubble Streaking Across the Sky
June 21, 2024 - Maybe a boring picture, but perhaps less so when you realize the bright streak is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in an...
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Fading Glory
June 18, 2024 - One of the personal projects I've been working on for a while is photographing supernovae*. These are cosmic events in w...
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Comet Kohoutek
February 17, 2023 - Given some excitement over the currently fairly bright comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), popularly known as the Green Comet, I was...
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Venus in the Daytime
January 18, 2022 - This was something a little different and a bit of a challenge: catching the crescent of the planet Venus in daylight. I...
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Photographing November's Lunar Eclipse
November 24, 2021 - I was struck once again how beautiful a lunar eclipse can be. In the early morning of November 19th the Moon began slipp...
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Perseid Meteor Shower
August 23, 2021 - I spent the night of August 11-12 by Yellowwood Lake in Brown County to view and photograph the Perseid meteor shower. T...
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A "New" Star
March 25, 2021 - I managed to catch a nova the other night! No, not the terrific PBS science program (which I do try catch as often as po...
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Exploring the far reaches of the Solar System
January 19, 2021 - I guess I'm stuck in Astro 201 these days; maybe I'm trying to relive my youth. But mostly I'm just pursuing long-time i...
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A Bright Spot in 2020
January 07, 2021 - There was a lot not to like about 2020, but certainly one bright spot was the appearance of Comet NEOWISE, the best come...
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A Great Conjunction
December 29, 2020 - Normally the visible planets are far apart in the sky. They are of course all very far apart across many millions of mil...
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Following a Giant Sunspot
November 15, 2020 - For once, I was able to follow a sunspot all the way across the face of the Sun. This is a particularly large sunspot gr...
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A Story of Iris
October 19, 2020 - Not long ago I ran across something I've hung onto for more than half a century: a photograph of an asteroid I made for...
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Finding Neptune
October 10, 2020 - Recently I have been pursuing a few more esoteric projects with my astrophotography setup, one of which is to photograph...
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Coming Full Circle
September 28, 2020 - Recently I've been trying to take more detailed images of celestial landscapes, concentrating on a middle ground between...
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Elusive Mercury
September 20, 2020 - Seeing or photographing the planet Mercury is a challenge, as it orbits so close to the Sun. But when the geometry is ri...
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The (almost) Unblemished Sun
June 23, 2020 - The Sun is a very powerful nuclear energy generator. Fortunately it produces a very constant, copious flow of energy tha...
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Hubble Watching
June 07, 2020 - I spent most of my career working on the Hubble Space Telescope mission. Hubble is a satellite orbiting the Earth that g...
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Cosmic Serendipity
May 29, 2020 - This is by far the best photograph of a meteor I've ever gotten. Not only is it a nice bright streak with a bit of green...
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Fields of View
April 25, 2020 - When I worked on the Hubble Space Telescope mission, I made a lot of images from Hubble data that revealed amazing lands...
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First Milky Way View of the Season
April 07, 2020 - It's always a treat to see the Milky Way and I always enjoy getting a decent photo of it, even though I have to miss som...
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A Cosmic Visitor
March 24, 2020 - Last night we had a rare mostly clear sky here in Indiana so I got a chance to photograph something a little different a...
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A Date That Will Live...In My Memory
March 07, 2020 - March 7th has a special meaning for me. In 1970 -- 50 years ago! I was about to graduate from high school and embark on...
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