Bakersfield Night Sky 2022

Sunday, March 20, 2022 Tickets go on sale tomorrow 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...

Sunday, March 6, 2022 In the waning days of winter, we're still able to see all of the stars of the Winter Hexagon after astronomical twilight ends. There are three gradations or tiers of twilight: civil, nautical, and astronomical. Civil twilight...

Sunday, February 20, 2022 Our nearest neighbor star, Proxima Centauri, may now have three planets going around it. Well, it’s not a new planet, of course—the planets have been orbiting the red dwarf star for billions of years before humans ever...

Sunday, February 6, 2022 The evidence is clear now isn’t it, that there was life on Mars? That’s what I first thought when reading about the latest findings from the Curiosity rover that has been exploring Gale Crater since 2012. After over 40 years...

Sunday, January 16, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope is finally in space and all of the complex unfolding “deployment” process is done. All of the major deployment parts were finished over a week ago including the unfurling of the five-layered...

Sunday, January 2, 2022 Happy New Year! Tomorrow is perihelion day when Earth is closest to the sun. The Earth will be just 91,406,842 miles from the sun which is 3.1 million miles closer than Earth will be at its farthest distance from the sun in...