Daryl Devore's Blog

Daryl Devore's Blog

Thursday 27 June 2019

It's been said before, but it bears repeating. #ThursdayThoughts #yoga




What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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 21 June 2019

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about nicknames Nasty 1 #Hubble #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace


  • NASA ID: hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o
  • Center: GSFC
  • Date Created: 2015-03-21
  • Visit GSFC Website
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars. First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core. But Nasty 1 doesn’t look like a typical Wolf-Rayet star. The astronomers using Hubble had expected to see twin lobes of gas flowing from opposite sides of the star, perhaps similar to those emanating from the massive star Eta Carinae, which is a Wolf-Rayet candidate. Instead, Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star. The vast disk is nearly 2 trillion miles wide, and may have formed from an unseen companion star that snacked on the outer envelope of the newly formed Wolf-Rayet. Based on current estimates, the nebula surrounding the stars is just a few thousand years old, and as close as 3,000 light-years from Earth. Credits: NASA/Hubble



What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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

Thursday 20 June 2019

What do you deserve? #ThursdayThoughts #yoga





What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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 14 June 2019

Hubble rocks out with heavy metal stars! #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace







  • NASA ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282
  • Album: Test
  • Center: GSFC
  • Creator: NASA Goddard
  • Date Created: 2017-12-08
  • Visit GSFC Website
Hubble rocks out with heavy metal stars! This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The stars comprising this spectacular spherical cluster are enriched with much higher proportions of metals — elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are curiously known as metals in astronomy — than stars found in similar clusters. A handful of these high-metallicity stars are also variable stars, meaning that their brightness fluctuates over time. NGC 6496 hosts a selection of long-period variables — giant pulsating stars whose brightness can take up to, and even over, a thousand days to change — and short-period eclipsing binaries, which dim when eclipsed by a stellar companion. The nature of the variability of these stars can reveal important information about their mass, radius, luminosity, temperature, composition, and evolution, providing astronomers with measurements that would be difficult or even impossible to obtain through other methods. NGC 6496 was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. The cluster resides at about 35,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt Text credit: European Space Agency Read more: go.nasa.gov/1U2wqGW






What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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 7 June 2019

A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this new picture from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. #NASA #Space #FridaysinSpace

  • NASA ID: PIA13005
  • Center: JPL
  • Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
  • Date Created: 2010-04-01
  • Visit JPL Website
A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this new picture from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows the Orion nebula, a happening place where stars are born.


What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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

Thursday 6 June 2019

Rumi has a lot of fascinating and wise sayings. And here's another one. #ThursdayThoughts #yoga




What's happening in June on Romance -  Sweet to Heat
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