This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout tells us a bit about the naming process for asteroids. During another 80’s musical interlude, I wondered how asteroids are named. Asteroids are those left-over parts of the cloud that formed our solar system.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout takes on a listener question.  One of our listeners, Scott K., asked a great question that is the basis of how we know, what we know about the universe.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sets his sights on the Earth’s precession.

Bruce Bookout steers this week’s episode of Looking Up and guides us to the constellation of Aquarius.

This week on Looking Up we are ‘shielded’ from ignorance about the constellation Scutum, thanks to Bruce Bookout. The night sky contains many odd objects besides the menagerie of strange creatures.  This time of year, in our southwestern sky, you will find a “shield” of stars. The shield is the constellation Scutum.

This week on Looking Up we learn how a world view did change. The only destruction talked about is that of Ptolomy’s geocentric system. Count yourself in… Ever consider yourself central to a discussion?

This week on Looking Up our month long tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions continues with Bruce providing insight on how the program came to be named.

Would any given astronomical object still look as cool if it had a different name? Bruce Bookout delves into that very subject on this week’s Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up we’re bound for a star that’s 50 light years from home. Deep in our southern skies, in the constellation Centarus lies a dead star 50 light-years away from the Earth. V886 Centauri is at first glance an ordinary white dwarf. But it is more than it appears.

Bruce Bookout has been some days in preperation for this week’s episode of Looking Up… Our springtime brings to view a northern-sky asterism many amateur astronomers call the Kite. An asterism is a recognizable pattern of stars that’s not one of the “official” 88 constellations. The Big Dipper is an asterism.

Bruce Bookout carries the weight of this week’s episode of Looking Up in which four majestic stars come together for something special. Why? Because we want you to know how ancient cultures viewed the night sky.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout is back, and he has a dragon ‘tale’ to tell. Our Colorado skies contains a constellation that coils around the north celestial pole.  Let’s briefly discuss the dragon constellation – Draco. The name Draco literally means “Dragon”, translated from Latin.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sends us an invitation to learn more about the meaning of meteorites in the Native American community.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout inspires us with comet ‘tales’ from various cultures. Comets are very remarkable objects in the night sky. Most celestial bodies travel across the skies at regular, predictable intervals; comets’ movements have always seemed very erratic and unpredictable.

It’s known by many names but there’s no mistaking being face to face with a full moon. Many early Native Americans tribes kept track of time by observing the seasons and lunar months, although there was much variability. Some tribes defined a year as 12 Moons, while others assigned it 13.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout illuminates us on the historic and cultural aspects of that special star nearest to us. The most obvious celestial object and most influential is the Sun.  Every ancient culture around the world saw the Sun as some form of deity.