Hey fellow Stargate fans! I’ve been thinking about the possibility of parallel universes within the Stargate universe. What if our favorite characters exist in alternate realities, facing different challenges and making different choices? It’s a mind-boggling concept, but one that could add a whole new layer of depth to the Stargate lore. What do…Read More

Rocket Engine FireplaceYou might not think a close up view of rocket engines producing 8.8 million pounds of thrust would be relaxing, but here it can be. In fact, you can get a warm and cozy feeling just spending a few moments watching NASA’s holiday rocket engine fireplace. The video features a loop of the Space Launch System rocket’s RS-25 main…Read More

Xuyi Station and the FireballColorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory’s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth’s annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest m…Read More

Stereo Jupiter near OppositionJupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured last year on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter’s 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from Singapore. That’s about 4 astronomical units away.…Read More

Driveway AnalemmaDoes the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day?  No.  A more visual answer is an analemma, a composite of sky images taken at the same time and from the same place over a year.  At completion, you can see that the Sun makes a figure 8 on the sky. The featured unusual analemma does not, however, picture the Sun di…Read More