I would like to thank everyone for their sympathies and well-wishes on yesterday’s events. Yesterday was rough, and I appreciate all your thoughts. Thank you. So, last night, a little bedtime reading. I picked up Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, read another twenty-odd pages and put it down. Quite frankly, I’m finding myself both bored andContinue reading “On a Strange Story Idea”
Tag Archives: Astronomy
On the Summer Moon
Expect to see a super-sized Moon this week. From NASA’s webpage on the subject: Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You’ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth’s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something’s wrong. This fullContinue reading “On the Summer Moon”
On Hoag's Object
No real text to share, just a nice collection of images of Hoag’s Object, a ring-galaxy some six hundred million light-years distant. Amazing stuff.
On the Solar System
Two noteworthy events around the Solar System these past few days. First, Voyager 1 has passed into interstellar space. I remember as a child watching television and seeing the Voyager photos of Jupiter and Saturn. News bulletins interrupting afternoon programming. That was a great time to be alive, to be young, to have dreams. AndContinue reading “On the Solar System”
On Saturn's newly-discovered moon
First, scientists find the Mars Polar Lander. Now, astronomers on the Cassini project have found a moon tucked inside Saturn rings. The unnamed moon showed up in pictures taken by Cassini last week. The moon appears in the images as a tiny ball in a 155-mile wide black space in the ring known as theContinue reading “On Saturn's newly-discovered moon”
On the missing Mars lander
In 1999 NASA’s Mars Polar Lander crashed onto the surface of Mars. Now, a researcher at Malin Space Science Systems believes that the crashed Mars lander can be seen in photos of the Martian polar region taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. Interesting!