Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]
This week, a comet is supposedly visible in the evening, even to the naked eye. There's some information and a beautiful picture here. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241014.html Act now! Tonight anyway. ~+~+~+~+~ Today's real topic is Sunday’s Gospel reading. It's about a rich young man who comes to see Jesus and then leaves. I never hear people commenting [...]
Solar activity has been intense this year. In May, August, September, and now October, there have been somewhat unusual auroras that can be seen much further towards the equator than is common. I do have to say, having spent a great deal of time finding pictures on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, that [...]
I have friends with telescopes and I love the website APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day.*** The original pictures on the site were often NASA or JPL, but nowadays the pictures are just as often from non-NASA personnel, amateur photographers with their telescopes out chasing astronomical phenomena. They take some brilliant pictures. All the same, [...]
I got a phone call at about 2 p.m. on September 11, 2001, from Georgetown Hospital. The hospital said that my son needed a blood transfusion, STAT. STAT I learned means right now and it would have been better earlier. I asked the hospital how I was supposed to get there, seeing that I lived [...]
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