Jane Houston Jones from JPL provides a video preview of the night skies in the first month of the new year. There will be plenty of planetary conjunctions with the Moon: Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be snuggling up with the Moon throughout the month. Jane also suggests using NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System to keep track of where all the different missions are throughout the solar system. If you haven’t yet checked out this amazing site, it is an interactive 3-D “universe” where you can explore the cosmos from your computer. You can fly along with almost any NASA mission, hop on an asteroid, see the entire Solar System moving in real time, or re-live the Mars Curiosity landing. But you have the option of controlling when and where you are. It’s fully addictive!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."- Samuel Adams
"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." --Samuel Adams
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. --John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. --John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. --John F. Kennedy
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. --Abraham Lincoln
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. --George Washington
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. --Albert Einstein
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. --Thomas Jefferson
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein
"The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away." -Ronald Reagan
"You cannot give away kindness because people keep returning it" -Indian Saying
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