Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Stunning Beauty – How the Earth Protects Us
This photograph (and many others) were taken by Ron Garan who is CURRENTLY onboard the the International Space Station. You can see the Google+ Scrapbook he has been posting these images to by clicking here. While you are there you might want to circle Ron to be aware of [Read More]
Cool Astronomy news story of the week
What happens when a star goes supernova? It looks like about 20,000 years before, it starts expressing out matter which then ignites when the star’s death finally occurs. Here is a great article in Sky and Telescope about 1987A along with amazing images from the [Read More]
The Giant Space Ribbon…
This is a bit tongue and cheek, but while we are looking hard to see if there is other intelligent life in in this universe, I often wonder the if there is, they are looking back and wondering what the heck we are doing? They could be receiving our old television programs [Read More]
A Dream Becomes A Reality
“One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind.” Forty years ago on June 16th, history was made. I was only 7 months old when the lunar landing was made, but it inspired many many dreams that I had and still have today. Talk about a time of [Read More]
