Saturday Speaks: My lucky stars

I am going to call it a three-way tie for highlights of the week. And the winners are...


Third Place goes to the image for Astronomy picture of the day:

What you see in this picture are "light echoes" 20,000 light years away. The light echo itself spans 6 light years in diameter. That's just neat.


Second Place goes to Astronomy news! Two of my favorite Leos sent me articles about the new Big Bang atom smasher machine (See articles: NYT and Yahoo). Also, my birthday subscription to Astronomy Magazine FINALLY came in today. I've got a handy calendar now of celestial events for the rest of 2010.

First Place goes to my postcard from Georgia in Cannes where she's working on her Masters Degree. It was unexpected and now a treasured reminder of friendship that I'll be leaving on my bed stand table for a while.