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Friday 31 May 2019

Tethys is seen here vaguely resembling the space station from Star Wars. #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace


  • NASA ID: PIA14637
  • Center: JPL
  • Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
  • Date Created: 2012-12-03
  • Visit JPL Website
Although Mimas holds the unofficial designation of Death Star moon, Tethys is seen here also vaguely resembling the space station from Star Wars. Apparently, Tethys doesnt want Mimas to have all the fun!


 
What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
1 - SPOTLIGHT –Debby Grahl - His Magic Touch
2- Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
3- Author Spotlight – Mary Sangiovanni – Inside the Asylum
4 - Critters on Tour – Amber Daulton –  Calla’s Summer Fantasy
5 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
6- Thursday #Yoga
7 – Fridays in Space
8 – SPOTLIGHT – Kristin McFarland – No Saving Throw
9-  Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
10 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Valerie Ullmer - Hunter
11 – Critters on Tour – Valerie Ullmer – Cameron and Rylan
12 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
13 - Author Spotlight – Liza O’Connor – Little Falls
14 – Fridays in Space
15 – SPOTLIGHT – Christina Britton – A Match Made in London
16 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
17 – Author Spotlight – Susan Schwartz – Haunted Charlottsville
18 – Critters on Tour
19 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
20 - Thursday #Yoga
21 – Fridays in Space
22 – SPOTLIGHT – Sara Harris – Rebekah’s Quilt
23 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
24 - NEBT - Author Spotlight - Felicity Brandon – Flawed
25 – Critters on Tour
26 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
27 – Fridays in Space
28 – SPOTLIGHT – Lovecontenu Song de Light Lovecontenu Audio set
29-  Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
30 – Author Spotlight – Kim Iverson Headlee – King Arthur’s Sister in Washing’s Court

Friday 24 May 2019

This image taken by NASAS Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows one of the largest flares, or star eruptions, ever recorded at ultraviolet wavelengths. #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace


  • NASA ID: PIA07249
  • Center: JPL
  • Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
  • Date Created: 2005-05-31
  • Visit JPL Website
This image taken by NASAS Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows one of the largest flares, or star eruptions, ever recorded at ultraviolet wavelengths. This star is called GJ 3685A.


What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Thursday 23 May 2019

This thought is a little too existential for me. #yogathoughts #Thursdaythoughts





What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Friday 17 May 2019

The star is about four million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova - so stay tuned! #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace


  • NASA ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383
  • Center: GSFC
  • Creator: NASA Goddard
  • Date Created: 12/8/2017
  • Visit GSFC Website
For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Hubble image of the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635, was chosen to mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of Hubble into Earth orbit by the STS-31 space shuttle crew on April 24, 1990 “As Hubble makes its 26th revolution around our home star, the sun, we celebrate the event with a spectacular image of a dynamic and exciting interaction of a young star with its environment. The view of the Bubble Nebula, crafted from WFC-3 images, reminds us that Hubble gives us a front row seat to the awe inspiring universe we live in,” said John Grunsfeld, Hubble astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C. The Bubble Nebula is seven light-years across—about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. The seething star forming this nebula is 45 times more massive than our sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a “stellar wind” moving at over four million miles per hour. This outflow sweeps up the cold, interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble much like a snowplow piles up snow in front of it as it moves forward. As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble, with its location in the 10 o’clock position in the Hubble view. Dense pillars of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust appear at the upper left of the picture, and more “fingers” can be seen nearly face-on, behind the translucent bubble. The gases heated to varying temperatures emit different colors: oxygen is hot enough to emit blue light in the bubble near the star, while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen. The pillars are similar to the iconic columns in the “Pillars of Creation” Eagle Nebula. As seen with the structures in the Eagle Nebula, the Bubble Nebula pillars are being illuminated by the strong ultraviolet radiation from the brilliant star inside the bubble. The Bubble Nebula was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel, a prominent British astronomer. It is being formed by a proto-typical Wolf-Rayet star, BD +60º2522, an extremely bright, massive, and short-lived star that has lost most of its outer hydrogen and is now fusing helium into heavier elements. The star is about four million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera-3 imaged the nebula in visible light with unprecedented clarity in February 2016. The colors correspond to blue for oxygen, green for hydrogen, and red for nitrogen. This information will help astronomers understand the geometry and dynamics of this complex system. The Bubble Nebula is one of only a handful of astronomical objects that have been observed with several different instruments onboard Hubble. Hubble also imaged it with the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC) in September 1992, and with Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) in April 1999. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)


What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
18 – SPOTLIGHT – Laurel A. Rockefeller – His Red Eminence
19 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
20 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Alyssa Bailey– Freeing Molly
21 – Critters on Tour – Marianne Petit
22 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
23 - Thursday #Yoga
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Thursday 16 May 2019

What grabs you? What excites you? What do you do? #yogathoughts #ThursdayThoughts





What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
17 – Fridays in Space
18 – SPOTLIGHT – Laurel A. Rockefeller – His Red Eminence
19 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
20 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Alyssa Bailey– Freeing Molly
21 – Critters on Tour – Marianne Petit
22 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
23 - Thursday #Yoga
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Friday 10 May 2019

View from Hubble of a Young Star #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace

With its helical appearance resembling a snail’s shell, this reflection nebula seems to spiral out from a luminous central star in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The star in the centre, known as V1331 Cyg and located in the dark cloud LDN 981 — or, more commonly, Lynds 981 — had previously been defined as a T Tauri star. A T Tauri is a young star — or Young Stellar Object — that is starting to contract to become a main sequence star similar to the Sun. What makes V1331Cyg special is the fact that we look almost exactly at one of its poles. Usually, the view of a young star is obscured by the dust from the circumstellar disc and the envelope that surround it. However, with V1331Cyg we are actually looking in the exact direction of a jet driven by the star that is clearing the dust and giving us this magnificent view. This view provides an almost undisturbed view of the star and its immediate surroundings allowing astronomers to study it in greater detail and look for features that might suggest the formation of a verylow-mass object in the outer circumstellar disc.

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11 – SPOTLIGHT – Peter Weisz – The Universal Mind
12-  Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
13 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – BJ Wane - Submitting to the Sheriff
14 – SPOTLIGHT –
15 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
16 - Thursday #Yoga
17 – Fridays in Space
18 – SPOTLIGHT – Laurel A. Rockefeller – His Red Eminence
19 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
20 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Alyssa Bailey– Freeing Molly
21 – Critters on Tour – Marianne Petit
22 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
23 - Thursday #Yoga
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Thursday 9 May 2019

Sometimes you just let the quote speak for itself #Thursdaythoughts #yogathoughts





What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
10 – Fridays in Space
11 – SPOTLIGHT – Peter Weisz – The Universal Mind
12-  Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
13 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – BJ Wane - Submitting to the Sheriff
14 – SPOTLIGHT –
15 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
16 - Thursday #Yoga
17 – Fridays in Space
18 – SPOTLIGHT – Laurel A. Rockefeller – His Red Eminence
19 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
20 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Alyssa Bailey– Freeing Molly
21 – Critters on Tour – Marianne Petit
22 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
23 - Thursday #Yoga
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space

Thursday 2 May 2019

Wise words as to what to do when life gets you down. #ThursdayThoughts #yogathoughts




What's happening in May on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
3 - Fridays in Space
4 - SPOTLIGHT – Nicole Coverdale – The Wiccan Way
5 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
6 - NEBT - Author Spotlight – Felicity Brandon - Entwined
7 - SPOTLIGHT – Liza O’Connor – Little Falls
8 - Critters on Tour – Sage MacGowan - Through Fire
9 - Thursday #Yoga
10 – Fridays in Space
11 – SPOTLIGHT – Peter Weisz – The Universal Mind
12-  Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
13 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – BJ Wane - Submitting to the Sheriff
14 – SPOTLIGHT –
15 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
16 - Thursday #Yoga
17 – Fridays in Space
18 – SPOTLIGHT – Laurel A. Rockefeller – His Red Eminence
19 - Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
20 – NEBT - Author Spotlight – Alyssa Bailey– Freeing Molly
21 – Critters on Tour – Marianne Petit
22 - Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
23 - Thursday #Yoga
24 – Fridays in Space
25 – SPOTLIGHT – Ryan Weiser – Dawn of the Hunters
26 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
27 - NEBT - Author Spotlight –
28 – Critters on Tour – Liza O’Connor – Six Sisters of Shame
29 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor
30 - Thursday #Yoga
31 – Fridays in Space