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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 December 5 NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet Credit: Christine and David Smith, Steve Mandel, Adam Block (KPNO Visitor Program), NOAO, AURA, NSF Explanation: NGC 2359 is a striking emission nebula with an impressive popular name - Thor's Helmet. Sure, its suggestive winged appearance might lead some to refer to it as the "duck nebula", but if you were a nebula which name would you choose? By any name...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 December 1 The Pleiades Star Cluster Credit & Copyright: David Malin (AAO), ROE, UKS Telescope Explanation: It is the most famous star cluster on the sky. The Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 29 Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 Credit & Copyright: N. A. Sharp (NOAO), AURA, NSF Explanation: Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact. Open clusters may contain from 100 to 10,000 stars, all of which formed at nearly the same time. Bright blue stars frequently distinguish younger open clusters. M35, pictured above on the upper...

Two years ago the media printed out a map showing the counties that went for Bush and the counties that went for Gore. They gave Bush the red counties. It has been rumored that the color selection was because blue was given to the incumbents. Republicans are now the incumbents. So we get blue. This is an open request for any Freeper with a graphics art package who has the time and resources to read in a map of the US counties, and to access the mapping of the county votes. Then, make sure that the Republicans get BLUE!

Papa Smurf Runs For SenateLibertarian U.S. Senate candidate Stan Jones, speaks Sept. 23 during a debate at the Great Falls Civic Center in Great Falls, Mont. Jones has a distinct blue-gray skin color, the result of taking too much of an anti-bacterial form of pure silver. (CBS) GREAT FALLS, Montana — Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease. Stan Jones, a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage...

<p>GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) -- Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.</p> <p>Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.</p>

<p>Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.</p> <p>Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.</p>

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 September 29 Venus: Just Passing By Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA Explanation: Venus, the second closest planet to the Sun, is a popular way-point for spacecraft headed for the gas giant planets in the outer reaches of the solar system. Why visit Venus first? Using a "gravity assist " maneuver, spacecraft can swing by planets and gain energy during their brief encounter saving fuel for use at...

The boom of cannons vibrates your innards. The sharp crackle of muskets sends drifts of pale smoke into the summer sky. Across the pasture, lines of men in blue face lines of men in gray, exchanging volley after volley after volley.Few men fall dead. After all, for most of the soldiers, it's too far a drive just to lie in the grass.In addition to travel time, each of the 1,500 or so Civil War re-enactors in the mock battle at Tunnel Hill just south of the Tennessee line has spent $1,000 or more on a uniform, firearms and other equipment....

If you have a big version of the Election 2000 results by county map(s), please post it on this thread. I need it for a class presentation where I am defending the Electoral College. If you have any other similar maps, with the division of states by Electoral votes, which states each candidate won, etc., please post here. Thanks in advance! It is really appreciated!

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 May 5 The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius Credit & Copyright: N. A. Sharp, REU Program, AURA, NOAO, NSF Explanation: M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. The cluster, dominated by bright blue stars, can be seen with the naked eye in a dark sky in the tail of the constellation of Scorpius. M7 contains about 100 stars in...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 April 24 The Trifid Nebula from AAO Credit & Copyright: Anglo-Australian Observatory, Photograph by David Malin Explanation: Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy...

Lighter blue headlines on white background are not very pleasant to the eyes--causes eye strain in a short period of time. What happened to the dark blue headlines?