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  • Published
    March 25, 2015

    My old friend Leo

    Leo, the Lion, has stalked the evening sky for months actually, but by around 10 p.m. in the middle of March, it dominates Dana Wilde's southern treetops.

  • Published
    March 11, 2015

    Spacecraft to buzz Pluto in July

    New Horizons will get within 6,200 miles of Pluto this summer, and should send back lots of information about the dwarf planet, Dana Wilde writes.

  • Published
    February 25, 2015

    An inconvenient winter

    Suck it up, friends. It's New England. It's winter, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    February 11, 2015

    Of snow, plows and good words

    Down the hill barreled a juggernaut, with huge steel wings flinging leftover snow onto snowbanks, writes Dana Wilde. What happens next will surprise you.

  • Published
    January 28, 2015

    Billions of galaxies in expanding space

    Our understanding of stars and galaxies is ever growing to unspeakable limits, writes Dana Wilde.

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  • Published
    January 21, 2015

    The blessing of snow in winter

    We are accustomed to bare woods and fields in the fall, but January is supposed to bring snow, columnist Dana Wilde writes.

  • Published
    January 7, 2015

    Winter, stars and aliens

    The kaleidoscopic night-shining sky rattles columnist Dana Wilde's brain.

  • Published
    December 25, 2014

    Winter in the northern sky

    For months it will be too much trouble to clamber over walls of plowed up snow to get to the Shed and its creaking floorboards, only to forget what brought me there in the first place, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    December 10, 2014

    Big Dipper is the great bear of the north

    You can look up there any clear winter night and see that giant bear circling the axis of the cosmos, settling into her winter sleep at this time of year, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    November 26, 2014

    Thoreau knew it, the Ancient Greeks knew it: nature demands our respect

    The physical world is a prism of truth and beauty, but we violate nature at our own peril, Dana Wilde writes.