Phil Plait
Phil Plait Phil Plait

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!  

Bad Astronomy
April 9 2016 9:00 AMLovely Clouds and Sky Time-Lapse Animation: Field of View
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April 8 2016 9:00 AMThe Delicate Petals of a 30 Megaton Impact
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April 6 2016 11:45 AMSoon
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April 5 2016 12:00 PMGorgeous Aurora Time-Lapse Video: “Radiance”
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April 4 2016 12:00 PMStudents: Want to Experience Weightlessness?
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April 3 2016 9:00 AMIntroducing Crash Course Physics!
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April 1 2016 8:45 AMFeast Your Eyes on a Half-Million Stars in the Heart of the Milky Way
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March 30 2016 8:45 AMAnother Global Warming Record: Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Low Maximum
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March 29 2016 8:45 AMCaught on Video: Jupiter Got Whacked by Yet Another Asteroid or Comet!
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March 28 2016 8:45 AMDonald Trump: “I Am Not a Believer” in Human-Made Global Warming
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March 26 2016 9:30 AMWatch a Sweet Animated Short About Two Joyous Friends Who Dream to Explore Space
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March 24 2016 8:30 AMThe Canaries Are Heavily Vegetated Islands ... So Why Are They Red?
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March 22 2016 11:45 AMAmazing Time-Lapse Animation: A Year of Sunrises
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March 21 2016 12:00 PMExoMars Spacecraft Seen on Its Way to Mars!
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March 20 2016 9:30 AMStunning Time-Lapse Video: Skylight
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April 8 2016 6:15 PMWhy SpaceX’s Successful Rocket Landing Is Such a Big Deal
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April 7 2016 9:00 AMWhat Does a Hundred Billon Galaxies Mean?
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April 6 2016 9:00 AMNew Rosetta Portait of the Comet Is Moody and Reflective. Literally.
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April 5 2016 9:15 AMMartian Dust Devil Dogs Red Planet Rover
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April 4 2016 8:45 AMBlue Origin Launches Its New Shepard Rocket for the Third Time
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April 2 2016 9:00 AMTesla, Elon Musk, and Climate Change: Can an Electric Car Help Save the World?
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March 31 2016 8:45 AMAstronomers Map a Distant Super-Earth, but It’s a Molten Hell
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March 29 2016 11:30 AMYour Heart Beats Due to a Star Long Dead
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March 28 2016 11:45 AMPsychedelic Stroboscopic Easter Eggs
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March 27 2016 9:00 AMThe Tribeca Film Festival Pulls Anti-Vax “Documentary”
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March 25 2016 9:15 AMOh, Just Another Gorgeous Photo of a Weird Geological Formation on Mars.
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March 23 2016 9:30 AMTwo Telescopes Tell Different Tales of a Galaxy
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March 22 2016 9:00 AMIf Global Warming Is Real … Why Is Iceland So Cold?
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March 21 2016 9:00 AMTwo Tiny Comets Will Fly Past Earth in a Pair of the Closest Encounters in History. Watch Live! 
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March 19 2016 9:00 AMHappy Vernal Equinox 2016! But What Does That Mean?

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