A lot has transpired since my last blog entry. For one thing — taxes! For another, the rescue and recuperation of a cat that was abandoned on our property. And in early May, a visit by relatives and the celebration of a birthday.

Add to that the incessant rain we’ve been having here in New England and the savvy reader might conclude that NO astronomy was getting done here! Well, that’s true — very little observational astronomy has been done in a week or more. But there are always books to read, pictures to look at.

Some of my favorite pictures are found on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website. Like this one from the point of view of a Martian stargazer (with a VERY good telescope!)

We’re always so busy looking OUT at the universe that every once in a while it pays to look BACK at ourselves. Just to remind us of our place in the cosmos.