To wrap up our tour of the solar system, we wanted to conclude with a poem by Maggie Dietz from Richard Grossinger’s Pluto. Though the beloved dward planet has been reclassified, it is far from forgotten! Pluto Maggie Dietz Don’t feel small. We all have been demoted. Go on being moon or rock or orb, buoyant …continue
Below is an adapted excerpt from Richard Grossinger’s The Night Sky: Neptune Neptune is very blue—not the oceanic blue of Earth but the electrical blue of lapis lazuli or the flame of a pilot light—blue like exoplanet HD 189733b. Neptune’s atmosphere consists of layers of mostly hydrogen and helium floating above its surface, with moderate doses of …continue
Every one of us remembers being in science class in elementary school and giggling uncontrollably when our teacher started talking about the planet Uranus. Unfortunately, those are probably the only memories we have when it comes to the “Ice Giant” planet. But, with help from books like Divine Love Astrology and Person-to-Person Astrology, we now …continue
Excerpted from The Night Sky, by Richard Grossinger. The Moons of Jupiter Io There was nothing to prepare Earth for Io, the first Jovian world visited by Voyager in 1979. Instead of drab craters as expected, Io startled Earth with vistas of flaky sulphur-yellow sands that looked like a gigantic pizza from which volcanoes were actively shooting …continue
From human faces to fossilized bacteria and everything in between, Mars has always intrigued us Earthlings with promising hints of life. NAB authors George J. Haas and William R. Saunders (The Cydonia Codex and The Martian Codex), Richard C. Hoagland (The Monuments of Mars) and Barry E. DiGregorio (Mars: The Living Planet) explore and analyze …continue
We’ve all heard the quote, “Men are from Mars; women are from Venus,” but how many of us actually know why that saying stands? Do you know its astrological significance, or the mythology behind the only planet in our solar system named after a female figure? With help from Divine Love Astrology and Person-to-Person Astrology, …continue
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