Bakersfield Night Sky 2022

Sunday, August 7, 2022 Just one or two weeks left before the schools start up again. Bakersfield College's first day of instruction is August 22 with a whole array of instructional modes from purely online to Zoom to face-to-face to hybrid versions....

Sunday, July 17, 2022 Wow! What a difference a 6.5-meter telescope has over 2.4-meter telescope. The beauty and exquisite details we can see with the James Webb Space Telescope compared to the Hubble Space Telescope in the infrared is astounding....

Sunday, July 3, 2022 Besides being Independence Day, tomorrow is also aphelion day when Earth is farthest from the sun at 94.5 million miles. There is a slight flexure in the Earth's orbit from the gravitational interaction with the moon by a...

Sunday, June 19, 2022 The season of summer officially begins with the June solstice on June 21 at 2:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time. The sun reaches its northernmost trek among the stars at that time. June 21 will be our day with the longest length of...

Sunday, June 5, 2022 Summer break is now in full swing—all of the schools are now finished with their spring semesters. Bakersfield College will start its summer session next week on June 13. Our sun appears to be starting back up its own activity...

Sunday, May 15, 2022 Tonight is the total lunar eclipse! This month's full moon is going to be directly lined up with the Earth and the sun, so the moon will travel through the umbra of the Earth's shadow, the region of total shadow. Though the moon...

Sunday, May 1, 2022 The National Academies of Sciences recently released its Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology Decadal Survey that covers the priorities for the development planetary science missions for NASA and NSF for 2023-2032. Since it takes...

Sunday, April 17, 2022 Happy Easter! This is one of the latest Easters we've had because the first full moon after this year's spring equinox happened several weeks after the equinox, on April 16. More accurately, Easter happens on the first Sunday...

Sunday, April 3, 2022 Tickets are on sale for the showing of “MARS One Thousand One” at the William M Thomas Planetarium that will be presented on April 21 at 7:30 PM While it's no longer required to be masked indoors at BC, with the vaccination...