Look Up: Star clusters, the Pleiades, and the Lunar Eclipse

Clusters of stars abound in the heavens. Born of the same parent cloud of dust and gas, star clusters can be small, loosely bound groupings of several stars to those that number in the hundreds of thousands and even millions.

Look Up: Our place in the Milky Way

‏Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we call Orion, the brightest stars of which are mere hund … (read more)

Look Up: January’s a good time to learn about astronomical magnitude

The new year opens with a better than average meteor shower and a great display of planets, including a six-planet alignment. Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine brightly among the stars in January.

Ken Corey presents ‘A Panoply of Landscapes’ at Bixby

From pastels, paintings, and prints, much of his work was done en plein air. His work features limited palettes which capture the dreamy, airy quality of summer in Vermont.  

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