91.5 KRCC's Looking Up   /     Looking Up: A Celestial Object By Any Other Name...

Description

Would any given astronomical object still look as cool if it had a different name? Bruce Bookout delves into that very subject on this week's Looking Up. I was once asked at a local star party; how do we know the names of things in the sky? The answer is simple – someone named it.

Subtitle
Would any given astronomical object still look as cool if it had a different name? Bruce Bookout delves into that very subject on this week's Looking Up. I was once asked at a local star party; how do we know the names of things in the sky? The answer is
Duration
90
Publishing date
2019-06-24 14:00
Link
https://www.krcc.org/post/looking-celestial-object-any-other-name
Contributors
  Bruce Bookout
author  
Enclosures
https://cpa.ds.npr.org/krcc/audio/2019/06/looking_up_6-24-19.mp3
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