astro-image of the day: hot baby stars devouring their parent nebula

Drama in deep space:

Click the image to see the story.

By the way, folks, I've been going back through my posts and adding tags to everything. If you click the "astronomy" tag on this one, you can see all my astro-image and related posts back through the end of 2006. I'll keep at it!

Chris

astro-image of the day: hot baby stars devouring their parent nebula

Drama in deep space:

Click the image to see the story.

By the way, folks, I've been going back through my posts and adding tags to everything. If you click the "astronomy" tag on this one, you can see all my astro-image and related posts back through the end of 2006. I'll keep at it!

Chris

NASA is getting smarter

For those of you not reading jaylake's LJ, check this out:

For so long, NASA just didn't understand that, in order to maintain support for what they do, they need to make space exploration dramatic; they didn't understand how to convey the drama inherent in their mission. James Gunn wrote an essay in the 1970's after they killed Apollo, about how the real reason for the death of space exploration wasn't the end of the Cold-War race to the Moon but instead how NASA bored the American taxpayers with their endless tech-talk rather than hiring poets and fiction writers to share their story. (Bonus points for who can name that essay first.)

It seems that lately they've solved this problem. They even hire movie makers these days. If you haven't visited their website in the last couple of years, check it out. It's become a real Web destination.

Chris

NASA is getting smarter

For those of you not reading jaylake's LJ, check this out:

For so long, NASA just didn't understand that, in order to maintain support for what they do, they need to make space exploration dramatic; they didn't understand how to convey the drama inherent in their mission. James Gunn wrote an essay in the 1970's after they killed Apollo, about how the real reason for the death of space exploration wasn't the end of the Cold-War race to the Moon but instead how NASA bored the American taxpayers with their endless tech-talk rather than hiring poets and fiction writers to share their story. (Bonus points for who can name that essay first.)

It seems that lately they've solved this problem. They even hire movie makers these days. If you haven't visited their website in the last couple of years, check it out. It's become a real Web destination.

Chris

weather for the Nebula Awards Weekend

Except for Friday, looks like the weather will be lovely.

Long sleeves are in order, it would seem.

Chris

weather for the Nebula Awards Weekend

Except for Friday, looks like the weather will be lovely.

Long sleeves are in order, it would seem.

Chris

embedding LJ in your website

This is a handy page.

embedding LJ in your website

This is a handy page.

LJ tech question

...because their Help sucks. How does one find the list of tags for my LJ, and how does one include that in one's main LJ view? I want to show a list of my (new feature to me) tags so that I (and readers) can click 'em and find related posts. I've seen some of you do it, but can't find the code to use.

Thanks!
Chris

LJ tech question

...because their Help sucks. How does one find the list of tags for my LJ, and how does one include that in one's main LJ view? I want to show a list of my (new feature to me) tags so that I (and readers) can click 'em and find related posts. I've seen some of you do it, but can't find the code to use.

Thanks!
Chris