Starship Asterisk*

It was the Star of Bethlehem.

There will be no moon during the 2010 Perseids, so they should be plentiful.

Astronomy http://jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=2

I looked for the eclipse here in Nashville but did not see it.

Blue moons are not so rare.

Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn and was deflected. Voyager 2 went on to Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 spent 12 years (1977-89) on its Grand Tour. All the gas giants were found to have rings. Jupiter is a failed star. If it were larger, nuclear reactions would have begun and it would shine by it...

The Milky Way is our own galaxy, and we are inside it. This is not apparent right away as we look at the glimmering arch in the night sky. The Greeks saw spilt milk. But the Milky Way consists of 400 billion suns 100,000 light years across and 2,000 light-years thick. If we could stand outside the M...

I used maps to identify the moon's prominent features. Dark lava plains are called maria (seas). Lava flowed from the moon's interior when impacts were hard enough. 5 seas combine to form a foot with 3 toes: Serenity, Tranquillity, Crises, Fertility and Nectar. The moon is geologically dead. If a me...