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Mars’s moon Phobos photobombs a photo of Mars — Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I normally pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way. Saturday, August 6th’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a stereo anaglyph…

Hint: it wasn’t because it was bad and why you should read it too — I’ve had Crying in H-Mart recommended to me numerous times for obvious reasons. It’s a New York Times Best Seller and absolutely deserves it. But I knew it would be a tough read. It’s Michelle Zauner’s memoir “about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.”…

Underneath the tail of Ursa Major lies M94 — Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I normally pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way. Astronomy is a particularly interesting field of science, especially when introducing it to…

Art can be and come from just about anything — We all collect different items over our lives. Many of them are things we need to survive. But many of them are for sentimental reasons or simply because they make us happy. However, many of these latter items often end up in a box or some other container never seeing…

Looking back on the Space Race and looking forward — Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I normally pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way. Today, we’ve continually had a human presence in space on the International Space…

Let’s gape at the wonder of the universe together — Welcome back to the Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings (MAPPs) series where every Monday I normally pick one of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) entries from the past seven days to focus on in some way. For this week’s Monday Astronomy Picture Ponderings, I had to feature the first…

Roe is no more and the questions abound — Roe v. Wade was officially overturned, turning the legalization of and restrictions on abortion over to the states, many of which are now scrambling to figure out how to legislate it (if they didn’t have so-called “shotgun” laws ready to go as soon as it overturned). Now is the time…