Phil Plait
Phil Plait Phil Plait

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!  

Bad Astronomy
Feb. 28 2016 9:15 AMWe Have Leap Days Every Four Years, Right? Right?
Bad Astronomy
Feb. 26 2016 9:30 AMMartian Weather Report: Scattered Clouds, With a Chance of Dropping Jaws
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Feb. 24 2016 1:13 PMAstronomers Solve Two Big Cosmic Mysteries With One Powerful Radio Burst
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Feb. 23 2016 11:45 AMWhy Does Rosetta’s Comet Have Two Tails? 
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Feb. 22 2016 11:30 AMRichard Branson Has a Shiny New Spacecraft
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Feb. 21 2016 9:30 AMEarth, Wind, Fire, and Water: Gorgeous Satellite Image of Erupting Volcano
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Feb. 19 2016 9:30 AMCrash Course Astronomy: Now in a Language Near You!
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Feb. 18 2016 9:15 AMYes, of Course CO2 Is a Pollutant
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Feb. 17 2016 9:00 AMLast Month Was the Hottest January on Record. By a Lot.
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Feb. 15 2016 9:30 AMJupiter’s Rep as Planetary Protector May Be Exaggerated. On the Plus Side, It May Be Responsible for Life on Earth.
Bad Astronomy
Feb. 13 2016 9:30 AMComparing Fiction and Fact: An Astronaut Talks About Life on the Space Station
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Feb. 11 2016 11:20 AMScientists Have Finally Detected Gravitational Waves, and They Reveal the Death Spiral of Two Monster Black Holes
Bad Astronomy
Feb. 10 2016 9:00 AMNASA’s 2017 Budget Request: The Good, the Bad, and the Same Old Same Old
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Feb. 8 2016 9:30 AMA Small Asteroid Will Definitely Miss Earth on March 5. But by How Much?
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Feb. 6 2016 9:15 AMApollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell, Sixth Man to Walk on the Moon, Has Died
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Feb. 27 2016 9:30 AMHow Saturn Got Its Stripes
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Feb. 25 2016 9:15 AMAstronomers Find an Icy Body Past Pluto That May Have Survived Neptune's Wrath
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Feb. 24 2016 9:15 AMDid the Universe Have a Beginning?
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Feb. 23 2016 9:00 AMGardasil Has Drastically Cut HPV in Young Women
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Feb. 22 2016 9:15 AMAstrophoto: A Brain-Melting Star-Forming Factory
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Feb. 20 2016 9:30 AMLargest Fireball Since Chelyabinsk Falls Over the Atlantic—and Almost No One Notices
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Feb. 18 2016 11:45 AMWhen Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When It’s a Chunk of a Comet.
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Feb. 17 2016 12:00 PMGalactic Violence Creates a Shell of Beauty
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Feb. 16 2016 9:15 AMRosetta’s Comet Is Fluffy!
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Feb. 14 2016 9:15 AMNeed a Little Help With the Climate Change Denier in Your Life? 
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Feb. 12 2016 9:15 AMIn Its Bonkers New Video, OK Go Literally Defies Gravity
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Feb. 10 2016 12:41 PMAn Uplifting Photo from Space
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Feb. 9 2016 9:15 AMNew Study: Yup, Thermometers Do Show Global Warming Is Real
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Feb. 7 2016 9:30 AMTime-Lapse “Final Frontier” Shows Just How Special Our Earth Is
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Feb. 5 2016 9:30 AMNASA’s Next Space Observatory’s Gold-Plated Mirror Now Complete

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