“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.” Leonard “Spock” Nimoy A new show on BBC has left me with a sour feeling. It is not really that the show is bad, or that the host is annoying. It is not that the… read more
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FROM NATURE TO HUMANITY In the 1700s, French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille began naming newly discovered constellations after human inventions. Looking through his telescope, he identified patterns among the stars and gave them names. One became Horologium, honoring Christiaan Huygens and the pendulum. Another became Microscopium, after the microscope. Of the seventy constellations recognized at… read more
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