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A bi-weekly short feature on astronomy, produced by members of the Black Canyon Astronomical Society.Link for podcast apps:https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/western-slope-skies/rss.xml
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- 1 weeks ago4 min
Western Slope Skies: Circadian Rhythm Part 2: Anatomy and Physiology
Circadian rhythm—our endogenous biological clock—has synchronized life with Earth’s rotation for billions of years, from bacteria to humans. How does this specifically affect humans?
- 3 weeks ago4 min
Western Slope Skies - Circadian Rhythm Part 1: Evolution
In 2025, Jamie Perce with the Western Slope Dark Sky Coalition presented an excellent series on circadian rhythm. The importance of this topic is prompting a deeper dive in 2026 with a five part series.
- May 8, 20264 min
Western Slope Skies - Shedding light on special relativity: Why photons don’t get old
If you have attended a night sky outreach event, conducted, for example, by the Black Canyon Astronomical Society or the Western Colorado Astronomy Club, then you have heard mention of the distance to a star or galaxy measured in light years, i.e. how long the light has been travelling to reach Earth. You might wonder “Do the photons get tired or slow down as time passes?”
- Mar 27, 20265 min
Western Slope Skies - Listening to Astronomy
In astronomy, we rely heavily on visual information. Images from telescopes, graphs of light curves, plotted orbits, spectra and diagrams. Most of the ways we understand astronomy today are shown through these two-dimensional formats. It's almost always something we look at. But vision is only one way of interpreting information. From quantum physics to the largest structures in the universe, the underlying reality is governed by motion, frequency and structure.
- Mar 13, 20264 min
Western Slope Skies - Neutron Stars
We all know how weird black holes are, but did you know there is another type of star that is just as strange? Welcome to the universe of neutron stars.
- Feb 27, 20263 min
Western Slope Skies - Exploring The Moon
When we gaze at the Moon in the future, we’ll contemplate that we humans have extended our reach to Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor. Perhaps this will be our first step toward making human life interplanetary.
- Feb 13, 20263 min
Western Slope Skies - Total Lunar Eclipse - March 3
Let’s hope for clear skies on the morning of March 3, when the Western Slope will be treated to a total lunar eclipse. During the early hours of March 3, the Moon will move through Earth’s shadow, creating one of the more eerie sights in nature.
- Jan 30, 20264 min
Western Slope Skies - Spectral Harbingers: Nacreous and Noctilucent Clouds
Who doesn’t like a pretty cloud in the sky? As familiar as the Sun and the Moon, clouds assume a wide array of shapes and sizes—from ominous cumulonimbus to cottony altocumulus, feathery cirrus to leaden stratus, and various hybrids in-between. We see them year-round worldwide, boding fair and foul weather alike.
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