Hello ...
Here's your Cosmic Pursuits newsletter for May 2024!
1. Mars, Saturn, and Mercury put on a show in the morning sky, galaxy season continues, and ongoing the Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks. Here's what to see in the Night Sky This Month...
2. Did you catch last month's eclipse? I enjoyed all 37% of it at my location (see image above). But millions enjoyed totality, especially in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada where the weather prospects were least promising. You just never know. Here's a round-up of some spectacular images of the
event, the last in North America for twenty years.
3. Take a tour of mesmerizing star cluster Melotte 111 that comprises the sparkling celestial hair of Coma Berenices in the heart of galaxy country.
4. Some unexpected insight from a new survey of the expanding universe: it may be that dark energy works a little differently than we believed, which might have huge implications for (the very distant) future of
the universe (gift link from the New York Times).
5. My favorite camera reviewers, Calgary's own Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake at PetaPixel, review NOT the latest gear from Canon or Nikon but the world's biggest-ever digital camera, the 3,200 megapixel monster
destined for the Vera Rubin Telescope in Chile.
And the astronomy quote of the month...
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within
this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
- Andre Malraux
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Wishing you clear skies!
Brian Ventrudo
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