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?Phil Plait and Andrew Bouvé
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Feb. 26 2016 9:30 AMMartian Weather Report: Scattered Clouds, With a Chance of Dropping JawsPhil Plait
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Feb. 24 2016 1:13 PMAstronomers Solve Two Big Cosmic Mysteries With One Powerful Radio BurstPhil Plait
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Feb. 21 2016 9:30 AMEarth, Wind, Fire, and Water: Gorgeous Satellite Image of Erupting VolcanoPhil Plait
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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.Phil Plait
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Feb. 13 2016 9:30 AMComparing Fiction and Fact: An Astronaut Talks About Life on the Space StationPhil Plait
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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 HolesPhil Plait
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Feb. 10 2016 9:00 AMNASA’s 2017 Budget Request: The Good, the Bad, and the Same Old Same OldPhil Plait
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Feb. 25 2016 9:15 AMAstronomers Find an Icy Body Past Pluto That May Have Survived Neptune's WrathPhil Plait
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Feb. 20 2016 9:30 AMLargest Fireball Since Chelyabinsk Falls Over the Atlantic—and Almost No One NoticesPhil Plait
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Feb. 18 2016 11:45 AMWhen Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When It’s a Chunk of a Comet.Phil Plait
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Feb. 14 2016 9:15 AMNeed a Little Help With the Climate Change Denier in Your Life? Phil Plait
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Feb. 9 2016 9:15 AMNew Study: Yup, Thermometers Do Show Global Warming Is RealPhil Plait