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The International Space Station came over our sky tonight. Rationally, I know they couldn’t see me wave, but the little girl inside me is pretending they did. Here’s a pic I snapped.  It’s not the most impressive picture, I know.  But I don’t have a telescope or a fancy camera. Still. It’s a picture of [...]

They are beautiful They are huge They are where stars are born I’ve posted a couple times about my love affair with nebulae. After talking to a few non-science-minded friends I found that they didn’t really know what nebula are…so I thought I’d post a little primer. They are not something that only exists on [...]

The W5 nebula was feeling romantic.  Look at the big heart in the middle! Read more about it here.

I get into a mode of girlish glee whenever a nebula picture comes up on APOD.  I could stare at a photo like this all day…. Bittbox has a great article that shares some awesome, very hi-res astronomy pictures that are in the public domain.  There are some great shots of Earth and other planets, [...]

I fell behind on viewing the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (forgot to add that feed to my google reader), and I missed these absolutely stunning eclipse pictures.  Last week, the Moon eclipsed part of the Sun as visible from parts of Africa, Australia, and Asia. Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the [...]