Category Archives: Uncategorized

A lovely planet, at least while it lasts…

This is a fun little game that lets you play God and create planetary systems and see if they’re stable enough to last 500 years. This one made it but because I used mostly Earth-sized bodies the point score was … Continue reading →

My first professional art job was working on the Washington, DC underground paper the Quicksilver Times in 1970-71. I drew headlines (we couldn’t afford PressType), I reduced or increased photo sizes by hand (we couldn’t afford the photo lab fees), … Continue reading →

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson (U. Washington), PHAT team, R. Gendler To better understand what stars compose the Andromeda galaxy, a group of researchers studied the nearby spiral by composing the largest image ever taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The result, called … Continue reading →

A quick jump into a low earth orbit might be good enough for some people. But if you want real space tourism, one of the 1,000 earth-like exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope is for you.

Gomez and Pugsley Addams would love this!