How to Make a Space Telescope, From the Archives

How to make a Space Telescope

Sketch out your idea.

Prepare batter.

Let cool.

Put into place.

Start searching the skies!

Originally posted 3/6/09

The Loneliest Boat in the Universe...

..would be forever adrift on Ligeia Mare

Someday Little Children We'll be Living on the Moon

Susan of Sesame Street ROCKS OUT! :) I always loved this song and now we are even closer to making this come true.



Water is found on the Moon!
NASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar Crater

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

Far Flung Frontiers.. our Future :)

Incredible song!

Edit.. vote for this for Video of the Year :)

Happy Full Moon to all :)

Cookie Monster sings.. If Moon Was Cookie.. yes *sigh* :) love those ol' sesame street songs :)

Natural Beauty

I love jewelry that "rings" of the natural world. This one made me think of so many beautiful things. See it here and also support original artists on Etsy.

Guy Laliberté Goes to Space, The ISS is now B612 :)

That is how I will think of it while Guy is up there :)





He took the book The Little Prince with him to show he has fulfilled a childhood dream.

Watch the Launch footage here:


The Lion you see was given to him by his daughters so he would have a little bit of home plus it was there to signify when they reached zero gravity.

There was another reason why he went.. Tune in on October 9th:

One Drop Foundation

Thank you, One Drop linked this story to their Facebook cover page please add them on FB and show your support!

Bunnies In Space!

Bet you didn't know the important role in space travel that bunnies played.. I didn't.. but there it is in black and white, with a verry dramatic song, so it must be true! :)

Buuunniiieeezzzz in spaaayyyycee, the song is now going through my head!

AAAAR2D2

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Originally uploaded by Kaptain Kobold.
So can we expect to see a "Droids of the Caribbean" sometime soon?
via LikeCool.com

Angels On The Moon

Dear Angel, were you on the Moon?
"What would make you ask such a thing?"




Just wondering..

Little Alien Eyes

The Way Out

Star Babies

Star Babies and their Family, no not celebs, but REAL Stars

August 22, 2008—Several generations of stars "pose" for a family portrait amid curtains of clouds in the star-forming region called W5, about 6,500 light-years away.

Using Spitzer data, a team led by Xavier Koenig at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found that cavities in W5 do contain ladder-like progressions of stellar generations, with older stars (blue dots) inside the hollows and younger stars (pink and white dots) around the rims.
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