Hal Bidlack

This week on Looking Up Venus entertains the Beehive Cluster in a celestial gathering of lovely and luminous objects.

This week on Looking Up we are introduced to Barnard’s Star. There is a lovely constellation in the Southern Colorado sky right now, with the awkward name of Ophiuchus.

This week on Looking Up we comb through Leo the Lion’s mane and discover a star by the name of Algenubi.  We’ve talked before about constellations that really don’t look […]

This week on Looking Up we check in on one of our solar system neighbors… Ceres. Can we talk Ceres for a minute? Or, more precisely, 90 seconds?

This week on Looking Up we learn about the second biggest object in our solar system – Jupiter.

This week on Looking Up we learn about an interesting star system, and also how to pronounce Zubenelgenubi.

Movie stars have been known to lead secret lives. This week on Looking Up Hal divulges the secret of a star called Izar.

As it turns out, galaxies tend to hang out in groups. We learn more about that on this week’s Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up Hal invites us out for a ‘steaming’ cup of ‘celestial tea’.

This week on Looking Up we learn about a rising star in the east that is a harbinger of spring and summer weather.

This week on Looking Up Hal starts looking ahead to a famous springtime constellation… One of my favorite constellations, Leo the Lion, is back in our night sky.

Have you seen Naos, the runaway star? This week on Looking Up Hal pinpoints it in the night sky for us.

There are two ‘sister’ star clusters in the constellation Taurus the Bull. This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout introduces us to the five daughters of Atlas… the Hyades.

This week on Looking Up… meet Alphard, a giant orange sun that seems to have lost its partner but gained a lot of barium in the process.

This week on Looking Up Hal gives us the extended celestial forecast – partly cloudy, with a chance for comets… I admit it; I’m a sucker for comets.

This week  Hal dusts off a topic we covered previously on Looking Up but is now in need of an update.