There’s a reason why Jodie Foster’s character (Ellie Arroway) in Carl Sagan’s Contact says, “They should have sent a poet.” Whenever you deal with something as vast and complex as Nature, and science’s interpretation of the world around us, it’s easy to fall into bland descriptive tropes and get overwhelmed with cold data. In order […]
I recently stumbled upon something that practically blew my mind. It was amazing to me because not only did I not realize that a machine – a single machine – was even capable of performing this type of extremely delicate, complicated, and massive task, but that it was actually up there doing it now (and […]
I just wanted to share some pictures I took on my commute this morning. It was a summer morning in early Spring – that’s Ohio for you. An unaccustomed warmth accompanied the fog over the cornfields. The Sun rose optimistically in the east while the birds sang their springtime pop songs… I drove past the […]
Messier 3 Discovered on May 3 1764 M3 is a globular cluster. A globular cluster is just a compact collection stars; basically a tiny galaxy within a galaxy. In fact, they may be smaller galaxies captured by our much larger Milky Way galaxy. M3 is one of the finest northern globular clusters. It’s super […]