Adirondack Daily Enterprisehttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.comTop Headlinesen-usSat, 18 May 2013 09:21:57 EDTSat, 18 May 2013 09:21:57 EDThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssOn tap in the summer night's skyhttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/536673.htmlThis column, like the glittering stars of winter, disappears abruptly when the evenings lengthen. So let me tell you a bit about the celestial events that will occur before The Wilderness Above returns in the late autumn.Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDTThe night sky in springhttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/536459.htmlThe waxing crescent moon has been climbing higher in the western sunset sky since last Wednesday. Tonight it nestles between the feet of the twins of Gemini, just above Alhena (All-HAY-nah) that marks the heel of Pollux, the immortal twin.Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDTGalaxies and clustershttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/536260.htmlSpace is vast and seems to go on forever. There are so many objects to look at while you're out under the night sky, including the moon, planets, asteroids and comets, which are all within our solar system.Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDTFaint fuzzieshttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/536031.htmlThe nights this time of year are starting later. That's a good thing, giving you more daylight after the work hours, but for people like us that love astronomy it hurts us a little bi.Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDTComet Pan-STARRShttp://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/535815.htmlThe closing of the Isthmus of Panama, cutting off the equatorial flow between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was just about complete 5 million years ago when, in the far reaches of the solar system, 50,000 times farther from the sun than Earth,...Tue, 5 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT