If you are into stargazing and/or looking at the moon, this is awesome news. You can view the International Space Station with the naked eye from right here in Casper.
We always encourage our Wyoming students to aim high. Midwest School took that direction literally a few months ago when they launched a high-altitude balloon nearly 100,000 feet over Wyoming.
It's hard to believe that this summer is the 32nd anniversary of the wildfire that nearly consumed Yellowstone National Park. I remember that summer of 1988 like it was yesterday.
Calling Mulder and Scully. Something weird is going on over the moon. There are multiple video shares showing weird objects over the lunar surface and it's definitely one for the X-Files.
As a kid, I was always fascinated by astronauts and space in general. I loved the Star-Trek movies and all though I realize that those movies are all fake It never stopped me from nerding out when I got to see what kinds of things NASA was up to just above our planet.
If you are a fan of looking up into the sky and seeing the other planets, then you may want to invest in a telescope because Jupiter is going to be so close to the earth that you'll be able to see it with a pair of binoculars!
You can sleep easy tonight knowing this isn't likely to happen in our lifetime, but what if a 200-foot asteroid exploded over Wyoming? Thanks to a recent scientific study, we know what that might be like. Let's put it this way. It would be a very bad day.
The planets are always doing awesome things that we aren't always aware of. Sometimes we are notified well before the solar events, and other times we aren't able to see them thanks to the weather or just not having enough time.