Tag: night sky

Life, the Universe and Everything

In a multi-part series, the host of Moyers and Company, Bill Moyers and the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the universe, higher beings and science literacy.



Transcript can be read here



Transcript can be read here



Transcript can be read here

The Cosmos

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos



Transcript can be read here

n a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference between “dark energy” and “dark matter,” the concept of God in cosmology and why science matters. [..]

Starting in March, Tyson will host a new, updated version of the hit PBS television series Cosmos, which made the late Carl Sagan a household name. This time the new series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, comes courtesy of the National Geographic Channel and Fox TV.

In The Sky Tonight: The Perseid Meteor Shower

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A Perseid Shower

This will be incredibly quick.  Read this, back away from the keyboard, turn off all the lights (this works best in rural America), go outside and look up.  Look up at the night sky.  Be patient.  Tonight, dharmaniacs, is the annual Perseid Meteor shower.