It would be possible to chart a course for a planet in another galaxy, only to find out its star had already gone supernova before we had even begun our journey. Since, at present, we have no hope of traveling faster than light, we can only obtain distant information at the speed of light, so […]
Read more "Sidereal Atlas"We’re about to discover how small we are.
Read more "What Can We Expect?"The terms we use confuse and misdirect.
It’s like we still hold Ptolemy correct.
Parsimonious: stingy or frugal Retinal: relating to the layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that are sensitive to visible light due to absorbing pigments that trigger nerve impulses to the visual cortex of the brain By most estimates, we see less than four hundred thousandths of the electromagnetic spectrum (light), or […]
Read more "What We See"“it helps, as it’s related to
some articles that we can hold.”
Galileo Galilei found evidence through his telescope that our solar system was heliocentric (sun centered) and was labeled (or libeled) a heretic, forbidden to teach, forced to recant his claims publicly, confined to house arrest and all his published and future writings banned. Currently, we are anticipating our mathematically predicted solar eclipse, based upon the […]
Read more "Visionary"This poem won honorable mention in Balticon’s 2014 annual poetry contest. It conveys what we are able to learn by looking back in time to the earliest galaxies which lived fast and died young in a time of turbulence and chaos. “Bedtime” is when we can see the night sky. Seeing our progenitor galaxies, we […]
Read more "Astral Lullaby"“She is the stars
and lights the stage”
The eighth line of this sonnet was originally: “just that they were of an unstable class,” However, as a nod to public relations astronomer, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I changed it to the more colorful phrasing seen here. It makes the entire poem seem more “badass.”
Read more "The First Stars"“CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE” won in Lone Stars Magazine’s competition of the same name in 2012.
Read more "Children Of The Universe"
BARD OF MARS 