Heads UP! for August 2014

Sesame Street had an entertaining and educational segment called ‘Near and Far’ with a Muppet running away from and toward our television screen, getting progressively more out of breath with each trip. Our ‘near and far’ in the month of August is more exhilarating than exhausting, with bright celestial objects passing near each other in …

Heads UP! for July 2014

The Fourth of July weekend has a sky full of astronomical sights. If you can see around all the fireworks, you’ll have two of the brightest asteroids near each other, with the Moon near Mars nearby and wonderful Saturn and its rings put on a show it a telescope.Asteroids 1Ceres and 4Vesta appear to be …