[FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, CLICK ON IMAGE] / Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona] The beautiful, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of […]
Great literature and theater rivets its audience with the universal dynamic no longer recognized as such in polite society: the murderous war between Good and Evil. Consider Lyme Disease. Modern medicine, after all, will not. Nor will health insurance programs recognize its devilish spirochetes. Stephen Buhner, author of the groundbreaking 2005 book “Healing Lyme: Natural […]
Get out of town and drive through the hinterlands. Try to find places where there are not even jet contrails in the sky. Fly-over country is too splendid. Try the Carolinas if you are on the East Coast. Turn on the radio, AM. These people did not get the memo. Now who’s weird? You or […]
After the Food Network announced Friday it had dumped celebrity chef Paula Deen for using the N-word and cracking racist jokes, a black pastor from Georgia, who is friends with her, came forward to defend her, saying she can’t be a racist. “I know her. My children have been to her house. I’ve been to […]
Here is what might happen if we suddenly encountered a day without satellites… 08:00 There was nothing sudden. Planes did not fall out of the sky, the lights didn’t go out or the water supplies fail. At least, not at first. … But outside, the loss of global satellite communications was putting the world in […]
[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION], NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage The Ring Nebula (M57) is probably [next to Saturn’s rings] the most famous celestial band. … The recent mapping of the expanding nebula’s 3-D structure, based in part on this clear Hubble image, indicates that the nebula is a relatively dense, donut-like ring […]
Each of the three scandals currently rocking Washington, D.C., are similar in one important way – they show bureaucracies where decision-making is so diffuse that no one, it seems, is actually responsible for the mistakes that were made. The situation raises the question, with so much government action residing in large bureaucracies led by unelected […]
[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION] / Bob Franke Beautiful barred spiral galaxy M109, 109th entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of bright Nebulae and Star Clusters, is found just below the Big Dipper’s bowl in the northern constellation Ursa Major. In telescopic views, its striking central bar gives the galaxy the appearance of the […]
One week ago Victoria’s Secret Model Kylie Bisutti opened up about her decision to quit modeling in order to make amends with The Man Upstairs …. The brunette bombshell reportedly quit modeling to protect her marriage and her relationship with God. God spoke to her, “telling her to leave the industry,” the Huffington Post reported. […]
In a note found scrawled on the inside of the boat in which he was hiding at the time of his arrest, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, claimed responsibility for the chilling April 15 attack, dismissed victims as “collateral damage” and looked forward to joining his dead older brother in paradise. Billed part suicide […]
