Kelly Beatty

veteran space-science reporter and passionate dark-sky devotee

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

tune in now to the annual meeting of the International Dark-Sky Association. Learn how to combat light pollution in YOUR community. https://t.co/mn3EqqlXxb

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

Santa came a bit early to the S&T offices. he dropped off one of the Pluto globes I spent many months working on: https://t.co/y3XcC1FwNw

[Alan Stern @AlanStern]

Lowell Observatory is auctioning this collector's car I drove "all the way to Pluto!” RT & spread th word! Bid here: https://t.co/RjXHE2GcJu

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

don't confuse Nov 14's extra-close Moon with "Moon illusion." at moonrise or moonset it's actually farther away than when high in the sky:

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

closest moon in 69 years on Monday but can you actually *see* that it's closer? "super"-interesting discussion here: https://t.co/7BeMkEtFQI

[Kalamazoo Astronomical Society @kzooastro]

J. Kelly Beatty, from "Sky & Telescope" presents "Darkness in Distress" tonight at 7pm. Please join us: https://t.co/6sChpLfwIv

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

Lotta buzz right now about two videos showing a Jupiter impact on March 17th. That's 5 strikes seen in past 7 years! https://t.co/OcbBmavI8d

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

Keep an eye to the sky the next few hours for northern lights as far S as PA to IA to OR. Alert issued for "strong" (G3) geomagnetic storm.

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

all a-twitter about seeing 5 planets at once? wait until next week to look (easier to see Mercury then). https://t.co/O5oxWe8w5a

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

so have you read/seen #TheMartian yet? do both. all SF flicks should be this good. I dish on WGBH's @GreaterBoston: http://t.co/0He9c1sUCk

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

24 hrs from now, eclipse's totality will be just starting. I hope you have clear skies--but if not watch it online: http://t.co/dlNSpt3znU

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

new effort to show Earth at night in all its bright, ugly detail. read http://t.co/XrdEGIaf9E -- then go join @IDADarkSky. do it now.

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

@astVintageSpace wow, Amy! I can't wait to read this -- will probably have one of those "I knew her when..." moments.

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

having an awesome time stargazing from a dark-sky site in central Maine. this state offers some of the blackest skies anywhere in the U.S.

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

at #PlutoFlyby briefing, Hal Weaver takes jab at IAU: Hydra (28 by 19 miles) is "an elongated object. Hydra is not a planet."

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

Jim Green on NH team: "since launch they constantly think 'every day we’re closer to Pluto'; now it’s 'every day we’re farther from Pluto.'”

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden: "With this mission, we have visited every planet in the solar system." #PlutoFlyby

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

(too excited myself! make that 7:49:57 a.m. EDT for closest approach!)

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

crazy excitement at Pluto Central as New Horizons close-approach countdown reaches zero at 7:48:57 a.m. EDT.

[Kelly Beatty @NightSkyGuy]

Eris has a diameter of 2,326 +/- 12 km, so Pluto (2,370 +/- 20) remains King of the Kuiper Belt #PlutoFlyby