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  1. “Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.”

    Christopher Hitchens

    1. Futurama s1e08 A Big Piece of Garbage (1999)
      Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
      Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
      Farnsworth: Urectum.

  2. Planets in our solar system are actually very easy to see. Typically they are the brightest “stars” you see in the sky.

    1. 1:32 – I disagree (with the scientist,) with the bright night sky about the only thing you can see reliably are the planets.
      My girlfriend was on vacation with her family looking west over the Gulf of Mexico and pointed “Mars!” Her family: “What? How do you know?” Her: “It’s red.” She’s great.

    1. I use a site called heavens-above
      You tell it your city and it will present a nice chart of the stars and planets visible at the moment. If you don’t tell it your city it defaults to the intersection of the zero longitude and the equator, something to remember if things don’t seem right.

  3. Cool stuff 💯One thing I loved about school was when the teacher spoke about planets showing beautiful pictures of the universe 🙏🏽

  4. Terribly overcast here. Not supposed to clear out until long after sunset. Bummer. very useful information

  5. I look at the planets every night with my eyes. Its the opposite of rare, its every night. Leave it to CNN to lie, even about something as indisputable and massive as planets 🤣😂🤣

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