Pluto, Speak

We have a probe near Pluto. It has a bright spot. Holy shit. http://t.co/HsirKvdxAA pic.twitter.com/SOld5O91ZE

— Ben Kuchera (@BenKuchera) June 26, 2015

Pluto, Speak

Pluto, Speak, You are a planet,

Then you weren't

Then you were, er, are,

Or Are you?

We Earthlings are distracted,

By other Earthlings,

Mean, Ugly, Adorable, Nice,

They come in all varieties of the same strand.

So as the Twitter feed goes rolling by,

I do try to select the Astronomical Tweets,

Filter out the weird, boring, repetitive.

There was this one of Pluto,

I knew it meant a lot, 

Right after I saw Titan's lakes.

So what are those lights,

or fires, lava,

or something we don't know yet?

Perhaps Pluto will Speak to us,

What are those lights?

 

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...

Gemini space capsule lands at @RRAuction, escapes parking ticket: http://t.co/r5FgGYpUd2 #parkingspace pic.twitter.com/32jgm01mI9
— collectSPACE (@collectSPACE) November 20, 2014

so i had a little fun...

.@marygerdt @collectSPACE @RRAuction be careful, our radars don't read over 17,000 mph
— Vermont State Police (@VTStatePolice) November 20, 2014

Mars or Bust

I made a new friend at the #ChelseaFinale named Dave Grohl and he's on board with #GetYourAssToMars. Who's with us? pic.twitter.com/1W8AZZFl0m
— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) August 27, 2014

From Buzz Aldrin's twitter feed.....

I am in...
re you?

Astronomical

Astronomical,
The photos from the Hubble, Nasa & more,
They aim their cameras
outward,
towards
space.
Since I was
little,
I gazed up in
Awe
at the stars, moon & planets.
Then I dreamed of
space travel,
and my place in all  of that.
We could have dreams like that
in the 1960's,
when slide rules
ruled
and the science was always up,up,up.

Not just a rock

Rocks sometimes look boring.
Some have intersting insides, like geodes, with beautiful crystalline centers and dull outsides.
Today's Astronomy pic of the day is a cross section of cosmic debris,
falling piece of asteroid, and not native to Earth.
Could these be seeds of change and evolution?

Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Hap McSween (Univ. Tennessee), A. Beck and T. McCoy (Smithsonian Inst.)

Astronomical

Astronomical info is readily available these days.
The Hubble has daily images along with APOD, the astronomical picture of the day.
Today's Hubble image, a special one.
I had a 1970 ish spirograph.
Here is the spirograph nebula


Source: Hubblesite.org


wow