Asteroid 3 Juno is at an ironic opposition. Continue reading “Juno the betrayed”
Category: history, archaeology
World’s oldest and newest star maps
This is, or may well be, the oldest: Continue reading “World’s oldest and newest star maps”
Homage to Archimedes
The Antikythera device: you’ve probably heard of this marvel. Continue reading “Homage to Archimedes”
Stones the size of goose eggs
May a happy year start for you tomorrow! And may no stones fall from the sky on your head!
New candles and old calendars
Hanukkah this year began at nightfall on Sunday November 28 and will end at nightfall on Monday December 6. So, if you are Jewish, like some of my kin, light this evening the fifth of the nine candles of the menorah.
A star sets
I’ve found this sketch of a street scene in Qandahar (home of the Taliban) that I made while hitch-hiking through Afghanistan Continue reading “A star sets”
Flowers that grow on Olympus
If you lie on your back and look straight up, Continue reading “Flowers that grow on Olympus”
Do marchers march or walk or waltz?
The midnight scene is rewarding, if you have the strength to stay up and and look at it, which I may not after my exertion of yesterday.
Portcullis
Red Mars and white Venus are about to set in the west, and up in the south is red Antares, the heart of the Scorpion.
Shadow over the north pole and the free city
On Thursday, June 10, the Sun will appear as a burning ring around the darkened Moon.
Continue reading “Shadow over the north pole and the free city”