Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our ...

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Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

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Susan Prezzano will present tips for beginners on how to observe the night sky during Public Night at the Oil Region Astronomical Society Learning Center, home of the Bedow Memorial ...