Western Slope Skies

A bi-weekly short feature on astronomy, produced by members of the Black Canyon Astronomical Society.Link for podcast apps:https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/western-slope-skies/rss.xml

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October 26 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Darkness as Accessibility
Colorado’s night-sky heritage stretches across the Western Slope – from Paonia…
October 23 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Finding Earth 2.0: ESA's Plato Mission
Exoplanets are planets beyond our Solar System. Speculated to exist for…
October 9 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Headlights
Have you traveled along a dark road and been temporarily blinded by bright…
September 25 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Olber's Paradox
If you’ve ever stepped outside on a clear night here on the Western Slope,…
September 12 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - A Powerful New Space Telescope
Suppose you were an astronomer and someone offered you, at no cost, two giant…
August 28 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - The Lost Art of Looking Up
Colorado is home to several International DarkSky Places, including Paonia…
August 14 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Primetime Lunar Eclipse - August 27
On August 27 the Sun sets late, around 7:46 PM MDT, which allows enough time to…
August 11 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Supernovae
In 2024, the popular Korean girl group aespa came out with a song called…
July 17 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Circadian Rhythm Part 5: Living Systems
Here's where evolutionary biology meets modern medicine. Our ancestors lived…
July 3 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies: Circadian Rhythm Part 4: Treatments
Remember nights when you tossed and turned, desperately trying to get some…
June 19 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Circadian Rhythm Part 3: Pathophysiology
What happens when a light switch disrupts billions of years of evolution?
June 5 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies: Circadian Rhythm Part 2: Anatomy and Physiology
Circadian rhythm—our endogenous biological clock—has synchronized life with…
May 26 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Circadian Rhythm Part 1: Evolution
In 2025, Jamie Perce with the Western Slope Dark Sky Coalition presented an…
May 8 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Shedding light on special relativity: Why photons don’t get old
If you have attended a night sky outreach event, conducted, for example, by the…
March 27 · 5 min
Western Slope Skies - Listening to Astronomy
In astronomy, we rely heavily on visual information. Images from telescopes,…
March 13 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Neutron Stars
We all know how weird black holes are, but did you know there is another type…
February 27 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Exploring The Moon
When we gaze at the Moon in the future, we’ll contemplate that we humans have…
February 13 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Total Lunar Eclipse - March 3
Let’s hope for clear skies on the morning of March 3, when the Western Slope…
January 30 · 4 min
Western Slope Skies - Spectral Harbingers: Nacreous and Noctilucent Clouds
Who doesn’t like a pretty cloud in the sky? As familiar as the Sun and the…
January 16 · 3 min
Western Slope Skies - Osiris Rex and Apophis
How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system…

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