The Sun entered Gemini today (joining Mercury, Venus and Jupiter). Now that we’re full-on into this sign, let’s look at the Tarot card associated with Gemini. At first glance, The Lovers seems to be about The Big Love. But look … Continue reading →

"I relate to you, Ralph. When I hit bottom, I was crushing man's skull like sparrow's egg between my thighs... and I think, why you have to be so bad, Zangief? Why can't you be more like good guy? Then I have moment of clarity... if Zangief is good guy, who will crush man's skull like sparrow's egg between thighs? And I say, Zangief you are bad guy, but this does not mean you are *bad* guy." --Wreck-it-Ralph

Cottonwood trees and the Milky Way on May 12, 2013. Credit and copyright: Randy Halverson/Dakotalapse.

Admittedly, I’m partial to Randy Halverson’s night sky photography from South Dakota. Having grown up in neighboring North Dakota myself, Halverson’s images bring back memories of the dark skies that grace the northern plains. But this one is just stunning, not to mention my early childhood home was surrounded by cottonwood trees — towering giants with ample limbs, and one of the few trees that grew well in the harsh prairies of the Dakotas.

Randy said he was trying out some new gear with this image, which is a frame from a timelapse he is shooting (can’t wait!) He used ased a Canon 6D and a Rokinon 24mm F1.4 lens (set at F2), using Emotimo TB3 Black timelapse equipment, shot at ISO 3200 for 20 seconds.
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Pad 39A hosted Apollo launches to the moon and space shuttle liftoffs over the years.

Some space-obsessed prognosticators see a way to pay.

Neil Armstrong's heartbeat readout and Apollo 11 flight control joystick are just not for sale.

Scientists and former NASA officials will present on the challenges and motivations for manned Mars missions.

The Mars Science Laboratory has completed its second drill into the surface of the Red Planet. The drilling target was nicknamed 'Cumberland'.

Astronaut Tim Peake will be the first British astronaut in space for the United Kingdom in 20 years.

The 1-ton robot pulled samples from deep within a Martian rock for the second time ever.

Where did all that superscience tech come from?

Hidden oceans underneath the icy moon's surface attracts a privately funded manned mission to Europa. Technical failures lead to death and loss of communication. But is something else at work? In theaters on August 2nd, 2013.

Bion-M’s mission patch. Credit: NASA

A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth — with a few casualties for the voyage.

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Asteroids and comet fragments tear fresh craters on Mars more often than previously thought.

Image from May 5, 2013 of a the inner region of Comet ISON using the 2-meter Liverpool telescope at La Palma. Credit: Nick Howes and Ernesto Guido, Remanzacco Observatory; Nalin Samarasinha, Planetary Science Institute.

In April, when the Hubble Space Telescope looked out towards Jupiter’s orbit and observed what has been billed as the “Comet of the Century” – Comet C/2012 S1 ISON – the space telescope photographed a unique feature in the comet’s coma. Now, a team of ground-based astronomers have performed follow-up observations, imaging Comet ISON as it heads towards the Sun and was just outside the orbit of Mars. They, too, have seen something in the coma and suspect it’s a similar feature to what Hubble imaged. The object is thought to be a jet blasting dust particles off the sunward-facing side of the comet’s nucleus.

These very useful follow-up observations are providing more insight on this highly anticipated comet, as well as helping to predict what might happen when it makes its closest approach to the Sun in November 2013.

“The hype surrounding this comet has been extreme” said Nick Howes from the Remanzacco Observatory, “with some wildly optimistic estimates for magnitude. We’re hoping this measured scientific approach will yield results just as exciting to the science community, even if the comet doesn’t end up meeting everyone’s expectations visually, for whatever reason.”
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X Prize officials aren't revealing any details yet, though.

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Astrology and baseball fans (I know there's a lot of you), here's a special guest blog from TMA's impeccable Managing Editor, Jan deProsse. Time to go to the movies!

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