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Even More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

May 8

May 8, 2025

Even More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

May 8, 2025

Is it possible that we might find dinosaur fossils on the Moon that originated on Earth? Has Denver drifted across the continent over time? Is it possible to build a probe that burrows into the Sun? Join Standley Lake Stargazing for our weekly program, this week’s topic is outlandish questions where we’ll probe these and other questions from a scientific angle!

May 8, 2025

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May 1

May 1, 2025

Observer's Notebook: The Spring Sky

May 1, 2025

Apr 24

Apr 24, 2025

Black Holes Like You've Never Seen

Apr 24, 2025

Apr 17

Apr 17, 2025

Solar Wind & Surviving Supernovas

Apr 17, 2025

Apr 10

Apr 10, 2025

Blue Ghost - Lunar Experiments

Apr 10, 2025

Apr 3

Apr 3, 2025

Ghost on the Moon

Apr 3, 2025

Mar 28

Mar 28, 2025

Spring Star Party

Mar 28, 2025

Mar 27

Mar 27, 2025

How to Launch a Rocket

Mar 27, 2025

More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

Mar 20

Mar 20, 2025

More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

Mar 20, 2025

Mar 6

Mar 6, 2025

Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

Mar 6, 2025

Feb 27

Feb 27, 2025

NASA's Pioneer Venus

Feb 27, 2025

Feb 20

Feb 20, 2025

Mariner & Magellan

Feb 20, 2025

Feb 13

Feb 13, 2025

Vega and Venera: Venusian Visitor

Feb 13, 2025

Feb 6

Feb 6, 2025

Common Cosmic Misconceptions

Feb 6, 2025

Making Measurements Over Millions of Miles

Jan 30

Jan 30, 2025

Making Measurements Over Millions of Miles

Jan 30, 2025

Jan 23

Jan 23, 2025

Observer's Guide to the Atmosphere

Jan 23, 2025

Earth's Window to the Sky: Atmosphere & Phenomenon

Jan 16

Jan 16, 2025

Earth's Window to the Sky: Atmosphere & Phenomenon

Jan 16, 2025

Jan 9

Jan 9, 2025

New Year, New Night Sky

Jan 9, 2025

Jan 3

Jan 3, 2025

New Year's Star Party

Jan 3, 2025

Dec 19

Dec 19, 2024

2024 Year In Review

Dec 19, 2024

Geminid Meteor Shower Watch Party - Eldorado Canyon

Dec 13

Dec 13, 2024

Geminid Meteor Shower Watch Party - Eldorado Canyon

Dec 13, 2024

Glimpsing New Worlds - The Roman Space Telescope

Dec 5

Dec 5, 2024

Glimpsing New Worlds - The Roman Space Telescope

Dec 5, 2024

PAST PROGRAMS

May 2020
- May 24, 2020 Isolation and the Cosmos
June 2020
- Jun 24, 2020 Virtual Astronomy Night
- Jun 28, 2020 Your Cosmos: Astrology History and Myths
July 2020
- Jul 1, 2020 Science & Cinema
- Jul 9, 2020 Finding Comet NEOWISE
- Jul 15, 2020 Science & Cinema: Part 2
- Jul 22, 2020 Photographing the Night Sky
- Jul 29, 2020 Humans in Space
August 2020
- Aug 5, 2020 All About Telescopes
- Aug 12, 2020 Summer Highlight - Perseid Meteor Shower
- Aug 19, 2020 Getting to the Moon: The Apollo Program
- Aug 26, 2020 The Cosmic Ladder
September 2020
- Sep 2, 2020 Apollo: Getting Home
- Sep 6, 2020 Science & Cinema
- Sep 9, 2020 Tour of the Solar System
- Sep 10, 2020 Apollo 13
- Sep 16, 2020 Autumn Stargazing
- Sep 22, 2020 NASA's International Observe the Moon Night 2020
- Sep 23, 2020 Equinox
October 2020
- Oct 7, 2020 The Red Planet
- Oct 14, 2020 Maps & Myths
- Oct 21, 2020 Tour of the Cosmos
- Oct 28, 2020 Fall Constellations
November 2020
- Nov 4, 2020 First Night Out
- Nov 11, 2020 Fabric of Space
- Nov 15, 2020 Galileo's Dilemma
- Nov 18, 2020 All About Telescopes
December 2020
- Dec 2, 2020 Inside the Shuttle
- Dec 9, 2020 Catching the Geminids
- Dec 16, 2020 Solstice
January 2021
- Jan 5, 2021 Majestic View Nature Center Astronomy Program
- Jan 6, 2021 Stargazing for Everyone
- Jan 13, 2021 Hubble
- Jan 20, 2021 Winter Sky Highlights
- Jan 27, 2021 Astronomer's Toolkit: Scopes and Software
February 2021
- Feb 2, 2021 Stargazing for Everyone (Virtual)
- Feb 3, 2021 Astronomer's Toolkit: Atlases, Books, and Catalogues
- Feb 10, 2021 Science & Cinema: Netflix's 'Away'
- Feb 17, 2021 Rockets & Science
- Feb 21, 2021 Your Cosmos: All About Telescopes
- Feb 24, 2021 Bad Astronomy
March 2021
- Mar 3, 2021 Should I Get a Telescope?
- Mar 10, 2021 Science & Cinema: 'For All Mankind'
- Mar 17, 2021 Springtime Astronomy
- Mar 24, 2021 Science & Cinema: Interstellar (Part 1)
April 2021
- Apr 6, 2021 Stargazing for Everyone (Majestic View Nature Center)
- Apr 7, 2021 Science & Cinema: Interstellar (Part 2)
- Apr 14, 2021 The Stellar Zoo
- Apr 21, 2021 Giants in the Sky
- Apr 28, 2021 How Do You Weigh a Galaxy?
May 2021
- May 2, 2021 Fabric of Space
- May 5, 2021 When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- May 12, 2021 Where the Wild Things Are: Cosmic Beasts
- May 19, 2021 Constellations & Campfires
- May 26, 2021 Exploring Distant Earths
June 2021
- Jun 2, 2021 Telescope Highlights of the Summer Sky
- Jun 9, 2021 Bad Astronomy: Pentagon UFOs
- Jun 16, 2021 Science & Cinema: 'Hidden Figures'
- Jun 23, 2021 The Planets - Part I: Inner Worlds
- Jun 30, 2021 The Planets - Part II: Outer Limits
July 2021
- Jul 7, 2021 Choosing and Using a Telescope
- Jul 14, 2021 Saturn - The Ring Master
- Jul 21, 2021 Jupiter - King of the Gods
- Jul 28, 2021 Billionaires in Space
August 2021
- Aug 4, 2021 Solar System Remnants
- Aug 11, 2021 Inside the Perseids (Virtual)
- Aug 11, 2021 Perseid Watch Party (Outdoor)
- Aug 18, 2021 Science & Cinema: 'Contact'
- Aug 25, 2021 Learning the Night Sky
September 2021
- Sep 1, 2021 The Rock With 10,000 Metal Moons
- Sep 8, 2021 Seeing in the Dark: Light & Optics
- Sep 10, 2021 Cygnus - The Swan (Outdoor Star Party)
- Sep 15, 2021 Stargazing Forum
- Sep 22, 2021 Cosmic Forensics
- Sep 24, 2021 Ice Giants (Outdoor Star Party)
October 2021
- Oct 6, 2021 Thinking Machines w/ Special Guest Emma Price
- Oct 9, 2021 Autumn Star Party (Outdoor Star Party)
- Oct 14, 2021 John Dobson: Spreading Wonder
- Oct 15, 2021 International Observe the Moon Night (Outdoors)
- Oct 20, 2021 Inside the International Space Station
- Oct 27, 2021 Flat Wrong
November 2021
- Nov 3, 2021 Eureka Moments in Science
- Nov 10, 2021 Real-Time Science!
- Nov 17, 2021 Countdown to Webb - Part I: Giant in the Sky
- Nov 19, 2021 Lunar Star Party (Outdoors)
December 2021
- Dec 1, 2021 Countdown to Webb - Part 2: Probing the Infrared Abyss
- Dec 8, 2021 Countdown to Webb - Part 3: Deep-Freeze Detectors and Sensitive Sensors
- Dec 15, 2021 Countdown to Webb - Part 4: Deploying NASA’s Webb
- Dec 21, 2021 Solstice Star Party (Outdoors)
- Dec 22, 2021 Launching the Webb
- Dec 29, 2021 Engineering Wonder
January 2022
- Jan 5, 2022 Looking Ahead
- Jan 7, 2022 Winter Star Party (Outdoors)
- Jan 12, 2022 Stories Behind Famous Equations
- Jan 19, 2022 The Mathematical World
- Jan 26, 2022 Making an Impact
February 2022
- Feb 2, 2022 Gems of the Winter Sky
- Feb 9, 2022 Off-World Telescopes and Probes
- Feb 16, 2022 Science & Cinema: 'Don't Look Up' (Part 1)
- Feb 18, 2022 Winter Star Party (Outdoors)
- Feb 23, 2022 Science & Cinema: ‘Don’t Look Up’ Part 2: Calculating Calamities
March 2022
- Mar 2, 2022 Planetary Defense
- Mar 9, 2022 Lunar Sledgehammers
- Mar 16, 2022 Famous Crashes on the Moon
- Mar 18, 2022 Equinox Star Party (Outdoors)
- Mar 30, 2022 Before There Was Light
April 2022
- Apr 13, 2022 Artemis: Back to the Moon
- Apr 15, 2022 Spring Star Party
- Apr 20, 2022 Extreme Environments in Space
- Apr 27, 2022 The Webb Space Telescope's Journey from the Lab to Deep Space
May 2022
- May 18, 2022 Portrait of a Black Hole
June 2022
- Jun 8, 2022 Science & Cinema - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Jun 10, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
- Jun 14, 2022 Summer Library Adventures - Astronomy Nights
- Jun 15, 2022 Science & Cinema - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Part II)
- Jun 17, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
- Jun 22, 2022 Underwater Telescopes & Neutrino Astronomy
- Jun 24, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
- Jun 29, 2022 IceCube Neutrino Observatory
July 2022
- Jul 1, 2022 Summer Starry Nights - Outdoor Star Party
- Jul 6, 2022 SOFIA the Flying Telescope
- Jul 8, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
- Jul 13, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Science & Cinema: ‘Don’t Look Up’
- Jul 16, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - The Pentagon & UFOs
- Jul 20, 2022 Telescope Highlights of the Summer Sky
- Jul 22, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
- Jul 29, 2022 Summer Starry Nights
August 2022
- Aug 3, 2022 Webb's First Images
- Aug 10, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Viewing the Perseids
- Aug 12, 2022 Summer Starry Nights (Outdoor Star Party)
- Aug 17, 2022 The Space Between Something and Nothing
- Aug 19, 2022 Summer Starry Nights (Outdoor Star Party)
- Aug 26, 2022 Summer Starry Nights (Outdoor Star Party)
September 2022
- Sep 7, 2022 How to See Jupiter and Saturn - PART II
- Sep 9, 2022 Outdoor Star Party
- Sep 14, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - The Early Universe
- Sep 16, 2022 Outdoor Star Party
- Sep 21, 2022 Our Stellar Neighborhood
- Sep 28, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Apollo 13
October 2022
- Oct 1, 2022 International Observe the Moon Night
- Oct 12, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Science & Cinema: Interstellar
- Oct 19, 2022 Science of Interstellar
- Oct 21, 2022 Autumn Star Party
- Oct 26, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Inside the Shuttle
November 2022
- Nov 2, 2022 Telescope Highlights of the Autumn Sky
- Nov 4, 2022 Autumn Star Party
- Nov 9, 2022 Cosmic Conversations - Planetary Defense
- Nov 18, 2022 Autumn Star Party (Deep-Sky Highlights)
- Nov 30, 2022 When Worlds Collide
December 2022
- Dec 7, 2022 December Highlights
- Dec 14, 2022 Artemis Update
- Dec 16, 2022 Solstice Star Party
- Dec 28, 2022 Spaceflight Year in Review
January 2023
- Jan 5, 2023 January Highlights
- Jan 12, 2023 Dangerous Space Junk
- Jan 13, 2023 Winter Star Party (Outdoor)
- Jan 19, 2023 Solutions to Space Junk
- Jan 22, 2023 Watch Party: Saturn-Venus Conjunction
- Jan 26, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Telescope Highlights of the Winter Sky
February 2023
- Feb 2, 2023 February Highlights
- Feb 9, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Cosmic Record Holders
- Feb 16, 2023 Cosmic Record Holders - Beyond the Solar System
- Feb 17, 2023 Winter Star Party
- Feb 23, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Our Home the Milky Way
March 2023
- Mar 2, 2023 March Highlights
- Mar 9, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Mining Asteroids
- Mar 16, 2023 How the Pros Scan the Skies
- Mar 17, 2023 Equinox Star Party
- Mar 23, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Telescope Highlights of the Spring Sky
April 2023
- Apr 6, 2023 April Highlights
- Apr 13, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Science on Tap
- Apr 15, 2023 Venus & Mars - Outdoor Star Party (Free registration required)
- Apr 20, 2023 How the Pros Scan the Skies - Imaging
- Apr 27, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Tribute to Carl Sagan
May 2023
- May 4, 2023 May Highlights
- May 11, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Mars in Reach
- May 18, 2023 Red Rovers
- May 19, 2023 Spring Star Party
- May 25, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - The Mystery of Gravity
June 2023
- Jun 1, 2023 June Highlights
- Jun 2, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jun 8, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Astronomer's Toolkit: Software and Apps
- Jun 9, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jun 10, 2023 Backyard Astronomy Workshop
- Jun 15, 2023 Dragonfly on Titan
- Jun 16, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jun 17, 2023 Backyard Astronomy Workshop
- Jun 22, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Telescope Highlights of the Summer Sky
- Jun 23, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jun 24, 2023 Backyard Astronomy Workshop
- Jun 30, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
July 2023
- Jul 6, 2023 July Highlights
- Jul 7, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jul 13, 2023 Cosmic Conversations -What's Going On With UFO's?
- Jul 14, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jul 20, 2023 Aliens: Will they greet us or eat us?
- Jul 21, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Jul 27, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - How To Use a Telescope
- Jul 28, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
August 2023
- Aug 3, 2023 August Highlights
- Aug 4, 2023 Summer Starry Nights (Community Stargazing Events)
- Aug 10, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Inside the Perseids
- Aug 11, 2023 Summer Starry Nights - Perseids Watch Party
- Aug 17, 2023 Science & Cinema: Contact
- Aug 18, 2023 Summer Starry Nights - (Community Stargazing Events)
- Aug 24, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Guest: Ana Bucki-Lopez and the Mobile Earth + Space Observatory
- Aug 25, 2023 Summer Starry Nights - (Community Stargazing Events)
- Aug 31, 2023 Science & Cinema: The Martian (2015)
September 2023
- Sep 7, 2023 September Highlights
- Sep 8, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Evolution of the Solar System
- Sep 21, 2023 Evolution of the Solar System - Part 2
- Sep 28, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Telescope Highlights of the Autumn Sky
October 2023
- Oct 5, 2023 October Highlights
- Oct 12, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Stargazing Communities
- Oct 13, 2023 Broomfield Night Skies and Migratory Bird Day
- Oct 14, 2023 Partial Solar Eclipse Watch Party
- Oct 19, 2023 Science & Cinema: The Martian (Part 2)
- Oct 26, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - Spooky Action at a Distance
November 2023
- Nov 2, 2023 November Highlights
- Nov 9, 2023 Cosmic Conversations - All About Galaxies (Virtual Program)
- Nov 16, 2023 Spooky Action at a Distance (Part 2)
- Nov 30, 2023 Science of the Early Universe
December 2023
- Dec 7, 2023 December Highlights
- Dec 14, 2023 Radio Astronomy - Guest: Michael Zappe
- Dec 21, 2023 Invisible Colors of the Cosmos
- Dec 22, 2023 Winter Star Party
January 2024
- Jan 4, 2024 January Highlights
- Jan 5, 2024 Winter Star Party
- Jan 11, 2024 Fate of the Universe
- Jan 18, 2024 Social Life of Stars
- Jan 25, 2024 Telescope Highlights of the Winter Sky
February 2024
- Feb 1, 2024 February Highlights
- Feb 8, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Modern Missions
- Feb 15, 2024 Totality
- Feb 22, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - A Star is Born
- Feb 29, 2024 More Modern Missions
March 2024
- Mar 14, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Observing Highlights of the Spring Sky
- Mar 21, 2024 Signals of Life
April 2024
- Apr 4, 2024 April Highlights
- Apr 11, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Eyes on the Earth
- Apr 18, 2024 Are We Alone?
- Apr 25, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Planetary Defense
May 2024
- May 2, 2024 May Highlights
- May 9, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Lonely Stars
- May 16, 2024 Earth's Survival
- May 30, 2024 Modern Missions
- May 31, 2024 Outdoor Star Party
June 2024
- Jun 6, 2024 June Highlights
- Jun 13, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Observing Highlights of the Summer Sky
- Jun 20, 2024 Touching Gravity
- Jun 27, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Science of Aliens
July 2024
- Jul 11, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Engineering Cosmic Voyages
- Jul 18, 2024 Scinece & Cinema: Ad Astra (2019)
- Jul 25, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Black Holes: What You Haven't Seen
August 2024
- Aug 1, 2024 August Highlights
- Aug 6, 2024 Star Party - Little Sprouts School & Community Garden
- Aug 8, 2024 Cosmic Conversations - Our Hostile Planetary Neighborhood
- Aug 12, 2024 Perseids Watch Party
- Aug 15, 2024 The Fault In Our Starliner
- Aug 22, 2024 Next-Gen Observatories
- Aug 29, 2024 SpaceX: Taming the Dragon
September 2024
- Sep 5, 2024 September Highlights
- Sep 12, 2024 Searching for Dark Matter | Guest Speaker Dr. Akash Dixit
- Sep 14, 2024 NASA's International Observe the Moon Night
- Sep 19, 2024 Observer's Notebook: The Autumn Sky
October 2024
- Oct 3, 2024 October Highlights
- Oct 10, 2024 Satellites At Your Service
- Oct 17, 2024 Under Alien Ice - Europa Clipper
- Oct 24, 2024 Monitoring Earth
- Oct 31, 2024 Where Is Earth 2.0?
November 2024
- Nov 7, 2024 November Highlights 2024
- Nov 14, 2024 Exoplanets: Firefly Behind a Floodlight
- Nov 21, 2024 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
December 2024
- Dec 5, 2024 Glimpsing New Worlds - The Roman Space Telescope
- Dec 13, 2024 Geminid Meteor Shower Watch Party - Eldorado Canyon
- Dec 19, 2024 2024 Year In Review
January 2025
- Jan 3, 2025 New Year's Star Party
- Jan 9, 2025 New Year, New Night Sky
- Jan 16, 2025 Earth's Window to the Sky: Atmosphere & Phenomenon
- Jan 23, 2025 Observer's Guide to the Atmosphere
- Jan 30, 2025 Making Measurements Over Millions of Miles
February 2025
- Feb 6, 2025 Common Cosmic Misconceptions
- Feb 13, 2025 Vega and Venera: Venusian Visitor
- Feb 20, 2025 Mariner & Magellan
- Feb 27, 2025 NASA's Pioneer Venus
March 2025
- Mar 6, 2025 Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions
- Mar 20, 2025 More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions
- Mar 27, 2025 How to Launch a Rocket
- Mar 28, 2025 Spring Star Party
April 2025
- Apr 3, 2025 Ghost on the Moon
- Apr 10, 2025 Blue Ghost - Lunar Experiments
- Apr 17, 2025 Solar Wind & Surviving Supernovas
- Apr 24, 2025 Black Holes Like You've Never Seen
May 2025
- May 1, 2025 Observer's Notebook: The Spring Sky
- May 8, 2025 Even More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

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Even More Scientific Answers to Outlandish Questions

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Observer's Notebook: The Spring Sky

Thursday, May 1, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Spring is in full swing, and the warmer nights are a perfect time to get outside and do some observing, with or without a telescope! Join Standley Lake Stargazing this week for an overview of springtime favorites such as the constellations Leo, Virgo, and Cancer, as well as deep-sky objects like the famous Beehive Cluster and the giant globular M3! You’ll learn to find objects visible with the naked eye, binoculars, and a small telescope, with some fun trivia along the way.