Don’t Miss This Spectacular Comet

I spotted it Saturday evening. Now’s your chance.

Hey folks, some housekeeping: I have made a difficult decision to discontinue the regular publication of Aha! Science, allowing me to focus my time and energy on my other publications. I will still write occasional science articles on Medium, and you can follow me there. As I bid this newsletter a solemn farewell, I would like to share one more science article with you, which I just published this morning…

It begins like this…

“Comets are like cats,” the astronomer and author David H. Levy has said. “They have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

I didn’t know what to expect Saturday evening when I took my wife out to the end of a nearby street on the outskirts of Phoenix, where there’s a clear view of the Western horizon. We arrived in time to watch the sun go down behind distant mountains. High, wispy clouds turned orange and red. Twilight settled in, and Venus emerged as a dim point of light, gradually growing brighter as daylight faded.

And then…

Read the full story, with a map and viewing instructions, on Medium >>>.

Cheers,
Rob