TLDR: Carbon stars are dying red giants that have belched so much soot-forming carbon into their own atmospheres that it…
Table of Contents TLDR: The Quick Picks Connecticut has eight real options for a dome show or a night behind…
Table of Contents Seven stars, one shape everybody already knows how to find, and almost nobody can name. That’s the…
Most “observatories in Wisconsin” lists hand you a name and a city and call it a day. That’s fine if…
New Jersey packs ten working planetariums into a state you can drive across in under two hours. That includes the…
Florida isn’t the first place anyone thinks of for stargazing. The humidity hazes the horizon, the coasts glow orange with…
Utah has more going for it than red rock arches and ski resorts. The state sits at high elevation, far…
Most lists of Colorado observatories just dump seven research facilities into a table and call it a day. Useful if…
Nebraska has seven working planetariums, and most of the lists online can’t agree on which ones they are. Some count…
Kentucky doesn’t get the dark-sky press that Utah or West Texas does, but it has a surprisingly deep bench of…