Winter can always be a tough time in the Pacific Northwest with cold temperatures, cloudy and wet weather, and the potential for some light snow thrown in to make things interesting. With the shorter days…
With a visual magnitude of 5.5, M22 is the brightest globular cluster visible from the mid-northern latitudes. However, as it lies in the southern constellation Sagittarius, M22 never rises very high in the sky and…
In the standard model of cosmology, the total mass–energy of the universe is said to contain 5% of ordinary matter and energy, 27% of dark matter, and 68% of what is known as dark energy. In this article, we will be taking a…
On the Winter Solstice, December 21st, 2020, Saturn and Jupiter will conjoin in the southwest sky 45 minutes after sunset. The 2 largest planets in the solar system will look like one large star. The…
Messier 21 is an open cluster that consists mainly of small, faint stars, but is also home to a few blue giants. The cluster contains about 57 confirmed members, but is pretty densely packed. It…
The celestial object known today as supernovas has undergone some evolution. The first version of the term was “supernovae”, which is thought to have been coined during 1931 Caltech lectures by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky. The term…
Although morbid, the sun is like every other star as it will finish its lifecycle in the distant future. However, there is no risk for any changes to the star that provides the Earth with…
Set to launch on December 5th, 2020 to the ISS, the 21st SpaceX cargo resupply is launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with more than 250 science experiments. CRS-21 is currently planned to be a 30 day…
Come join us for a quick look at 3D Printing and its potential applications to spaceflight, and the space manufacturing process. What is 3D Printing? It can be described as the process builds a three-dimensional…
Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula, is an Open Cluster as well as a combination of Emission, Reflection and Dark Nebula located in the Sagittarius region of the Milky Way. It also belongs to the constellation…