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PublishedFebruary 8, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Supernovas a wake-up call to vastness
The magnitude of our awe at the facts of supernovas is like astronomers hundreds of years ago seeing new stars where none had been before, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: New stars in a constant sky
Exploding stars known as novas are relatively commonplace in our galaxy, with 30 or 40 novas a year visible through telescopes, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Glimpses of Mercury
The rare times we can see Mercury in the night sky are reminders of the planet's mysterious travels in space, like dreams that appear just before waking, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Year-end thoughts on climate change
This month’s highly irregular weather is a symptom of the fact that global warming is real and spelling trouble, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Earliest sunset before shortest day
Understanding the Earth's orbit and spinning around the sun can be tricky, illustrating how appearances may well not be reality, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Letter from the future
Imagining his grandson three decades from now, Dana Wilde ponders the mess we're making of the environment and why we allow it to happen for future generations when we know what we're doing.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: November notes
From an apparition of August to crusty snow and brumal cold, the month of November revealed a season changing and a sense that time is standing still, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: The tangled webs of bridge spiders
Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small gnats are their a preferred food.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: The beautiful, reviled shag
Cormorants vibrate some living thread between here and boyhood as they fish local waters, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Incredible ironies in a looming disaster
It is incredible that we are making more trash now than we were 20 years ago, Dana Wilde writes.
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