A story. You could consider it to be about an alternative planet.
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Venus Valentina
Valentine’s morning (tomorrow) will be toward the last for seeing the two inner planets together as they stoop toward the Sun.
Wild Carrot Galaxies
White spirals: that was the cover-painting theme for my Astronomical Calendar one year (1994). On the front was a hurricane called Hyacinth, its violent spiral spanning several hundred miles; inside was the Whirlpool Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 51, forty thousand light-years wide; and on the back was the plant called Queen Anne’s Lace, painted at true scale, I think, its flowering head six inches wide.
I remembered about this because I’ve found five other drawings I must have made of that plant in South Carolina.
Trios, if you count Pluto
Peering to the right of the Sun – that is, being out on the morning side of our spinning planet – is still the way to see planetary activity.
The stories told by satellites’ names
There will have to be a new printing before long of Albedo to Zodiac, my astronomical glossary, so Continue reading “The stories told by satellites’ names”
Fortieth day from Christmas
Tor, good afternoon, your February 2 birthday is coming around again – your eleventh! And it will also be Groundhog Day again. A year ago, Continue reading “Fortieth day from Christmas”
Jupiter before midnight
Jupiter has departed from the company of the pre-dawn planets (Mars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury) and has begun coming up over the eastern horizon well before midnight.
The dawn was like a red, red rose
No, it was like a gold, gold lily –
But today is Burns Day.
Yet another definition of midwinter
A group met on the third Monday of the month, Continue reading “Yet another definition of midwinter”
Planet Nine discovered, maybe or even probably
There may be a planet at an enormous distance from the Sun: Continue reading “Planet Nine discovered, maybe or even probably”