Hal Bidlack

This week on Looking Up Hal speaks of night sky wonders both near and far.  There are lots and lots of amazing and wonderful things in the Colorado night sky.

To the star Menkar, which, as we learn on this week’s episode of Looking Up, is well on its way to becoming a planetary nebula.

This week on Looking Up Hal gives us the low down on a planet that will be up all night long.  Regular listeners of Looking Up will recall that I […]

This week Hal takes a “vested” interest in space rocks of all kinds. Have you ever touched a rock that was not of this Earth?

The alpha star is not always the brightest star in a constellation, as we learn on this week’s Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up we learn the astronomical reason for the seasonal changes. I have breaking news from the world of astronomy. The Earth has seasons!

Sometimes when a thing becomes hidden, something else is revealed.

When a planet appears to reverse course and move ‘backwards’ in the night sky it’s said to be in retrograde motion.

On this week’s Looking Up Hal points out the meteoric rise of GZ (short for comet Giacobini-Zinner) a celestial visitor visible in the Colorado sky this month.

When you’re No. 2 you have to shine a little harder.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is back and the 2018 edition could be a banner event as we learn on Looking Up this week.

This week Mars will be as big as the full moon (as long as it’s viewed through a telescope at about 100x magnification).

But there’s still fire, or some mysterious heat source, deep in the belly of Pluto, as we learn on Looking Up this week.

It’s a good week to try and find the closest planet to our sun. Often times, the brightest objects in the sky are our fellow planets.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sheds some light and some shadow on the origins of the sundial.