Dense fog on Trans-Canada
Boy dead over sextortion
BC's Big Pharma battle
Convoy defence continues
Domestic abuse spikes
Homeless turn to the ER
Rescued from tunnel
Priorities at COP28
Finland to close border
Scotiabank profits down
Pay transparency impacts
Google to start purging data
Karate team kicks butt
2 provincial titles captured
Rockets take down T-Birds
Paul, Elton in Spinal Tap 2
Nixon goes on hunger strike
Royals househunting in LA
Skywatching
Powerful new telescope heading for space
As I write this column, final preparations are underway for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is planned for launch, Christmas Eve...
Dealing with asteroids before they collide with Earth
Sixty-five million years ago, after ruling the Earth for some 200 million years, the dinosaurs and many other forms of life were in decline. Then came the...
Taking a closer look at the Moon
We have all seen how much bigger the Moon looks when it is close to the horizon compared with how big it looks when it is higher in the sky. If you have ever...
Plenty of presents suitable for astronomers out there
There are many things other than telescopes or binoculars that the family astronomer might want to find in their stockings. The choice is huge. Here are a few...
Picking the right binoculars and telescopes for astronomers
Every year the range of potential presents for the family astronomer gets bigger and bigger, which makes choices more and more difficult. There is gear out...
Dating stars through waste elements detected through light
On a clear, dark night, our unaided eyes can see maybe two thousand stars. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains around a billion stars. Considering the universe...
The new James Webb Space Telescope will be launched into orbit Dec.18
It is a wonderful thing that our world has a nice, dense atmosphere. Without it we would not be here. However, it does not make life easy for astronomers....
Frozen planet Pluto surprises observers with its topography
Pluto is a small, rocky object, smaller than the Moon, orbiting the Sun in a wildly elliptical path ranging from 30 to 50 times the Earth-Sun distance, taking...
Spacecraft named Lucy on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
We have a pretty good overall picture of how our Solar System formed. However, there are lots of unanswered questions. For example, if the Earth started off...
Light pollution is the bane of stargazers
The old Royal Greenwich Observatory sits at the top of a hill on the south bank of the Thames, downstream from the centre of London. Founded in the 17th Century...
Looking for life on the Red Planet
Jezero crater is the 28-km diameter remnant of an ancient impact on Mars. Until maybe three billion years ago it contained a large lake that had a major river...
How unique is our Solar System?
During Earth's 4.5 billion-year history, it has been hit by things and possibly experienced small changes in its orbit. The earliest evidence for life we...
How big can solar flares get?
On Nov. 10, 1989 there was a large solar flare. This produced a coronal mass ejection or solar storm that arrived at Earth on Nov. 13, causing power outages and...
Comet 2I/Borisov pays a visit as it flies near the sun
In 2017, an elongated rocky object came into the Solar System from interstellar space, flew past the Sun and planets and returned to the dark, cold space...
Despite being 2.5 million light years away, we can see Andromeda
These evenings the Big Dipper is lurking low in the northern sky. The two stars opposite the handle, named Dubhe and Merak, are known as the...
Of all the planets we've seen so far, Mars is most like Earth
Out of all the worlds around the Solar System we have so far looked at, Mars is the most like ours. The geological and geographic resemblance to ours is...
NASA reveals picture of spiral galaxy Messier 51
NASA has just published a very intriguing picture of the spiral galaxy Messier 51. This spiral galaxy, which is similar to our galaxy, the Milky Way, is of...
The Sahara Triangle
In the 19th century there was a proposal to let martians know there was intelligent life on Earth. At the time it was widely accepted Mars was inhabited and...
Diamonds at the core?
These evenings it is hard to miss that bright, starlike object in the southern sky, shining steadily like a lamp. The lack of twinkling tells us that it is not...
Mountains on other worlds
Our world has lots of mountain ranges. Even a small telescope will show mountains on the moon. There are mountains on Venus and Mars. This might sound like a...
