As long as I can remember, I have loved the sky. It spawned a love for astronomy. I had books that I would read and re-read. I loved any and all space-themed documentaries. My parents gave me a telescope one Christmas, and in our rural back yard I was able to see some small bit…
One topic of study currently in the Campbell home is astronomy. Mom and most of the children are part of a home schoolers co-op that go through science curriculum together, and this year’s topic for the middle kids is the science of space. (My favorite! Our kids had a leg up on everyone else as…
Well, leave it to the party poopers at NASA to crush the dreams of all of the big fans of Mayan prophesies and general time keeping skills. It seems that the head of the Near-Earth Objects Program has quite handily decimated any and all the claims of global apocalypse, mayhem, end-of-the-world predictions as well as…
I truly love the beauty of the fall season. This was the view out of my third-story window today. A very dark sky on the horizon, with fluffier white clouds above and blue sky (and sun) behind. And this was just minutes after a wet, heavy snow was showering down on us. It’s more than…
NASA scientists (among others, I’d imagine) continue searching for planets and planetary systems in our galaxy and nearby galaxies with all the tools currently available to us, and they continue to discover those greatly sought after objects. And now apparently have found the first planet that is thought to be in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone”….
Saw this interesting article today. I used to talk about cool things we were learning from and doing in space… until I got too busy! :-) Have been cutting back on the schedule though, and hoping to have more time to read and pass along things I read, AND even write some of my own…
I watched an episode of PBS’ Nova recently titled, “Voyage to the Mystery Moon”. It was the story of NASA’s Cassini mission to explore Saturn and land on its enormous moon, Titan. Very cool show about a pretty fascinating project. I am definitely very interested in space and space exploration. Well, that show led me…
I found a couple articles that interested me in my news feed this morning… One Small Step Toward a Mars Landing … at SeaReid Stowe is a “professional adventurer” (what exactly is that?) who is 100 days into a 1000 day stay on a small boat in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. His…
I was listening to the Science@NASA podcast last night and heard about an upcoming sky event your folks in the western US might be interested in knowing about. Actually, I guess it will be visible from most everywhere except Europe and Africa. But the Western US will have a fairly good view of the total…
Well, I made it. After finishing my book, then writing about it a bit here… I did another fun project, and then watched the movie World’s Fastest Indian. Good movie. Well, all of that took me up to about 4:30am. PERFECT for catching a sky full of meteors! :-) I only saw maybe 6 or…