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On January 11 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the team behind the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest digital color image of the sky yet, [...]

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As soon as twilight falls, Jupiter can be seen high in the west-southwest. As the sky grows darker, follow an imaginary line from Jupiter toward the point on the western [...]

Two comets bid adieu This past winter and spring gave us a simultaneous view of two very different comets, one that faded slowly and quietly, the other roaring to life [...]

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In the sky, I watch birds fly by. Then they land on a nearby tree. Can't you see? Lauren Garwood and Amanda Woolard Chesapeake, [...]

The sky is sometimes like a blanket of blue, Or a color you never imagined. The sky to me is like a small little pond, Clean and living everywhere. The […]

The Sky The sky is like a cloudy sea Stretching far and wide. Its endless waters cover the earth Where angels play and hide. I love to look up at [...]

Channel 4 has raided BSkyB's sports department for a controller to lead the network's coverage of cricket, which it wrested from the BBC earlier this month. The network has appointed […]

Sky is reportedly spending 60 million pound-sterling through 1999 to advertise its digital TV offerings in the UK. With an intention to jump ahead of rival ONdigital, Sky's ad campaign will be kicked off by a 90-second blockbuster commercial created by lead agency M&C Saatchi. Initial advertising will take the soft sell approach, presenting the digital format as a previously unseen panorama of viewing opportunities. With the soft sell approach, Sky is targeting a modest 200,000 digital subscribers by Christmas of 1998. But when it changes to high gear in 1999, Sky will be aiming at cornering the 14-million-home market currently not taking pay TV.

With free installation for all and an advertising budget of 100m [pounds sterling], the two main digital players have declared all-out war. At last the digital picture is getting clearer. […]

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NOVEMBER 2015 1 DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME ENDS at 2 a.m. for most of the U.S. and Canada. 2 DAWN: Look for the close pairing of little red Mars and brilliant Venus. [...]

In the dark time, the creeping-out-at-night time, we join hands and tiptoe out of sleep and down the stairs, down the hall, and down into the yard. There we lie […]

Meat In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a clear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that 'two gentlemen, who tasted the [...]

At what atmospheric pressure does a planet's sky become so bright that you can't see stars when the Sun is up? --Allan Burger, Waterbury, CT A planet doesn't need any [...]

The Wonderful Sky So high is the sky, The place where winged things fly, The place where hopes and dreams take shape. I'm awaiting the day to see the heavenly [...]

Red Is the Sky Red is the sky when light shines through. Red is being embarrassed in front of friends. Red is an apple when Mom says, 'No snacks!' Red [...]

With much fanfare, cosmological cartographers last year began work on an unprecedented map of the heavens. When the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is completed in 2002, it will chart the [...]

The Sun sets The Moon rises When the Sun sets the skies glow When the Moon rises the stars come out. Connor Goode, Age 4 Riverside, […]

The water is the blue sky The waves are the clouds Lots of people don't look at it that way Lots of people just look at it like, "do, do, […]