A little ramble through Fornax the Furnace Fornax the Furnace is a constellation in the southern sky, its name is Latin for furnace. It is one of the so-called modern constellations ...

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One of the brightest Cepheid variable stars in the sky is . . . Eta Aquilae! Never heard of it? It's located 8° due south of Altair and pulses from magnitude 4.3 to 3.4 and back every 7.18 days.
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Diamond ring effect from the April 8 solar eclipse. It was a truly amazing experience.

#Februarty #Februarty2025 #rings #photography #SciArt 🐡 #astrononmy #art #artist #solareclipse

Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy “For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile...

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Walking trail up a hill, here in a tunnel of overhanging trees that cast dappled shadow on the trail. Sky & a lone figure seen emerging into the bright area beyond trees. Stanford Dish Trail. Photo by Ellen Friedman 2024.

View back to Stanford University Campus from Stanford Dish Trail in Palo Alto CA. Photo by Ellen Friedman 2024.

People walking up the open sweep of Stanford Dish Trail. Dried gass and distant trees. Photo by Ellen Friedman 2024.

Radio telescope known as The Dish, Stanford University Campus, Palo Alto CA. Seen silhouetted against distant tree-covered hills. Stanford Dish Trail. Photo by Ellen Friedman 2024.

Still can't bear to look at news much, so focus #inthemoment
After med appt yesterday, we walked up hill on Stanford Univ property toward radio telescope known as "The Dish". Unusually warm day.
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