This Is A Tough One, But I Pick Peridot, I Hope She Will Be Able To Fuse One Day.

I can relate.

Love me some SU

Have some Astrophyllite doodlies

April is “Keep America Beautiful” month – and beautiful it is!

This week, @usatoday featured the top 50 Department of the @Interior @instagram posts of all time (@americasgreatoutdoors Tumblr).  The stunning photos of American public lands and wildlife include several managed by the BLM: the Wave at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona and a supermoon over Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument in California, pictured here.

About the top photo, @Interior’s Instagram post (9/29/15) read: “The #superbloodmoon – a #supermoon in combination with a #lunareclipse – put on quite a show last night. Bob Wick captured this photo last night at Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument in #California. Photo by @mypubliclands.”

Check out the USA Today feature at http://usat.ly/1VrurMu, and follow @USInterior and @mypubliclands​  Instagram for more great photos!

There is no denying the beauty of space!

i think i have an unhealthy obsession with space

but i mean

can

you

really

blame

me?

What’s Up for February 2016?

Five morning planets, Comet Catalina passes Polaris and icy Uranus and icy Vesta meet near Valentine’s Day.

February mornings feature Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter. The last time this five-planet dawn lineup happened was in 2005. The planets are easy to distinguish when you use the moon as your guide. Details on viewing HERE.

If you miss all five planets this month, you’ll be able to see them again in August’s sunset sky.

Last month, Comet Catalina’s curved dust tail and straight ion tail were visible in binoculars and telescopes near two galaxies that are close to the handle of the Big Dipper. Early this month, the comet nears Polaris, the North Star. It should be visible all month long for northern hemisphere observers.

There will be more opportunities to photograph Comet Catalina paired with other objects this month. It passes the faint spiral galaxy IC 342 and a pretty planetary nebula named NGC 1501 between Feb. 10 – 29. For binocular viewers, the magnitude 6 comet pairs up with a pretty string of stars, known as Kemble’s Cascade, on Feb. 24.

Finally, through binoculars, you should be able to pick out Vesta and Uranus near one another this month. You can use the moon as a guide on Feb. 12, and the cornerstone and the corner stars of Pegasus all month long.

For more information about What’s Up in the February sky, watch our monthly video HERE. 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

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NASA’s Juno Mission Delivers Preliminary Science Results

http://www.sci-news.com/space/juno-science-results-04896.html