Back when I was a younger BaneSidhe and in college, I was hoping that I’d be able to take some astronomy classes for a couple of semesters as astronomy has always fascinated the daylights out of me. Sadly, the prof who was to teach the classes dropped dead the summer before the fall semester that the beginning astronomy classes were to begin, so that idea went kerflooey. I’m not the best person mathmatically, but this guy was a good teacher so anyone could understand what he was teaching.
Anyway.
A couple years back a friend of mine showed me a couple of gorgous pictures of a spiral galaxy he’d gotten from the Hubble telescope website. Needless to say, I got hooked. After that I found a couple more sites with pictures of even more wonderful pictures, videos, etc. And now there is GoogleSky, which my hubby got me into.
Nature is beautiful. I sit there and page through the star map, look at the pictures and am in awe of the beauty. So simple, yet so complex and gorgeous.
Astronomy rocks!
