Every stargazer with a telescope has been looking at Saturn lately. This year the planet reaches the point in its orbit that brings it closest to the Earth. It appears bigger and brighter than at any time in the past 30 years.
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Composite image of Saturn and the angle of its rings relative to Earth from 1996 to 2000 • NASA Hubble (CC BY 2.0)
Photo by Ryan Jacobson on Unsplash
A year mapped for stargazing
Thank goodness for Guy Ottewell. If he didn’t exist, I would have to invent him.
Composite image of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter • NASA/JPL/DLR
Adam, Badam, bo-Badam
Legend has it that Adam was allowed by the Creator to name all the creatures of the Earth.
Princess Aura and Flash Gordon as portrayed by Priscilla Lawson and Buster Crabbe (1936)
And they’ll all speak English
If memory serves me right, my first true love was Princess Aura, daughter of Ming the Merciless of the planet Mongo.