astronomyblog: Enhanced Color Caloris The sprawling Caloris…



astronomyblog:

Enhanced Color Caloris

The sprawling Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the solar system’s largest impact basins, created during the early history of the solar system by the impact of a large asteroid-sized body. The multi-featured, fractured basin spans about 1,500 kilometers in this enhanced color mosaic based on image data from the Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft.

Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. APL

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany…



Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel’s central issues—technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism—have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

grandegyptianmuseum: A Painting in the Tomb of Minnakhte…



grandegyptianmuseum:

A Painting in the Tomb of Minnakhte (TT87)

It shows a Theban villa surrounded by a garden planted with different kinds of trees, including the sycamore. Minnakhte was Superintendent of granaries of Upper and Lower Egypt, an appointment of prestige and importance of the state, during the joint reign of Thutmose III. He was also Overseer of Horses of the Lord of the Two Lands. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Sheikh Abd el Qurna, West Thebes.

Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt, Book by Michael Rice

BGS Book Club

We’re starting a Book Club! Submit up to 3 suggestions, fiction or nonfiction, any genre, for the book we’ll be reading in July. We’ll announce which book we’ll be reading on July 15th and meet sometime in August to discuss it.

Make your suggestions HERE.

Excelsior!