Hubble 25 Anniversary [Text] Vonnegut's Letter to Students: 'Practice Any Art...Make Your Soul Grow' | Witnify “You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow…” When English teacher Ms. Lockwood assigned her students at Xavier High School to correspond with a well-known author on their work and request advice, Kurt Vonnegut was the only writer to respond. “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. I thank you for your friendly letters. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut” 20548 Total Views 10 Views Today
Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page sky mania Plot of the Inner Solar System The plot below shows the current location of the major planets (Mercury through Jupiter) and the minor planets that are in the inner region of the solar system. Also available is a view of the innermost region of the solar system. The plot is of the same form as the plot on this page. An animated version of this plot is available from our Animations page. This plot must not be reproduced without the express written consent of the Minor Planet Center. The orbits of the major planets are shown in light blue: the current location of the major planets is indicated by large colored dots. In this view, objects in direct orbits (most of the objects in this plot) move counterclockwise and the vernal equinox is towards the right. Back to minor planet lists and comet lists.
Kepler Mission To Find Earth-like Planets By Studying Planetary Transits Earlier this week we spoke about finding Earth-like planets, and how hard it is to find them. We would like to see other planets similar to Earth, and we have a few absolutely necessary conditions: the planet must be rocky, solid, dense like Earth, a source of power like a Sun, chemicals resulted from volcanic activity, and liquid water. The most important thing however, is that the planet must be located in the Goldilocks zone, the area where the planet is not too far and not too close from a star. In order to find such planets NASA has begun the Kepler Mission which will last four year. In the search of alien life scientists will have to be pay a lot of attention to the planetary transits because the changes of the brightness are very, very small. If you thought that it’s easy then please note that the Suns might change their brightness due to natural variation, and if a transit doesn’t repeat itself more than once in a year then chances are that’s not an exoplanet. via Physorg
Summary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters records, 1864-1942 American Academy of Arts and Letters, est. 1904 Society New York, N.Y. Collection size: 800 items (on 5 microfilm reels). Collection Summary: A collection of artists' papers containing correspondence, notes, biographical material, exhibition catalogs, and other published material. Includes: volume of notes, drawings, and calculations made by George Bellows for a study of Jay Hambidge's theory of Dynamic Symmetry; correspondence and published and unpublished biographical and critical material on George de Forest Brush, Childe Hassam, Francis D. Millet, Joseph Pennell, Elihu Vedder, and J. Biographical/Historical Note: Organized 1904, incorporated 1914; New York, N.Y. This is a collection of miscellaneous papers representing a gathering over the years of unsolicited documentary resources on American art given or addressed to the Academy. How to Use this Collection Microfilm reels NAA 1 through NAA 5 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Earth Impact Database OSIRIS-REx Mission Instrument: PolyCam This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona. Rosetta, ESA Mission Instrument: OSIRIS narrow-angle camera Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 01:20 GMT from an altitude of about 16 km above the surface during the spacecraft’s final descent on Sept. 30. The image scale is about 30 cm/pixel and the image measures about 614 m across. Id: 366050 Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover Mission Instrument: Mastcam Mastcam 360 degree, 18x7 mosaic taken of Curiosity's surroundings on martian solar day 2671. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NeV-T Space Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Juno Mission
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