Every day lately, I wake up and look at the news on my phone and realize how much has changed. No matter what happens going forward, we can’t ever go […]
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Category: Astronomy
I owe so much to the Voyager missions. My novel Heliopause: The Questrison Saga: Book One. My short story, EUROPA BURBS. But even before those, I was a child enamored […]
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Ask a Mars Geologist with Danny Krysak Recently, I had the honor to speak with Danny Krysak, a Mars geologist I had met at one of my book signings. I […]
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Welcome, Spring! Persephone returns, flowers blooming under her feet as she walks under the sun’s warmth again. Welcome to the vernal (spring) equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern […]
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Did you see it? Did you see the great Super Blue Blood Moon of 2018? First, let’s talk about why this full moon, on January 31, 2018, was a […]
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I’m not sure if it’s just me, but this week seems to have been a fount of space-related news. I’m going to talk about just some of what has unfurled […]
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Hello all, and Happy December to you! Have you looked outside tonight at the supermoon? I do hope so. Our moon’s elliptical orbit becomes noticeable when it swings closest to […]
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At last we arrive at October, the splendid month. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we glide along properly into autumn. The afternoons glow with amber light. The […]
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Today marks the autumnal (fall) equinox for the Northern Hemisphere, whereas it is the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. I decided to commemorate the occasion with […]
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This morning I awoke with a start around 4 am and pelted down to stream the Grand Finale of Cassini’s mission to Saturn. I listened to the voices of the […]
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