Just to the right of center, the mighty hunter Orion strolls by in the morning sky with his faithful dog star, Sirius to the lower left. Just below Orion’s feet six stars frame a hare, Lupus, that rests quietly, perhaps hoping not to be discovered by either Orion or his canine friend. On the upperContinue reading “Walking the Dog”
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Sirius-ly Morning Musk
Bright clouds in a dark sky revealed the twisted trail of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Polaris Dawn launch which carried an all-civilian crew into space yesterday morning. They will be orbiting more than three times higher above the earth than the International Space Station to test systems for extended space travel and will perform the firstContinue reading “Sirius-ly Morning Musk”
Sirius-ly!
Finally, Sirius is on the rise! This means that the peak summer temperatures will soon be on the decline. It was once thought that summer’s heat was due to the alignemnt of the sun with Sirius, the brightest star in our nighttime sky. It had been proposed that their combined heat made summer’s days soContinue reading “Sirius-ly!”
