Astronomy Friday – Veil Nebula
The Veil nebula is the wispy remnant of a supernova that exploded somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand years ago. It...
Yearly Archive: 2023
Suffer The Children
Mark Twain was reputed to have said that history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. And when you review...
Astronomy Friday
This week’s photos in order: NGC 6781, an almost perfectly spherical planetary nebula; Barnard 143, a dark nebula that, together with...
Separation And Supremacy
The Republican party’s descent into proto-fascism is best understood as the end result of the failure of the conservative project as...
Astronomy Friday – Two Planetary Nebulas
Two classic planetary nebulae today – Messier 57, the Ring Nebula, with its central star visible, and Messier 27, the Dumbbell...
Astronomy Friday – Two Nice Clusters
The open cluster Messier 11 and the globular cluster NGC 6760 are two nice clusters in Scutum and Aquila respectively:
Corruption And Democracy Erosion
Corruption and democracy erosion go hand in hand. Corruption leads to an increased erosion of faith in democracy and democratic institutions...