Starship Captain on Cosmos: Engage!

Are you watching 'Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey' currently airing Sundays at 9 PM EST on FOX and on Mondays at 9 PM EST on the National Geographic Channel? The new series hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a re-tool of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage' from 1980.

Episode 4 is titled "A Sky Full of Ghosts." It tells the story of 19th century British astronomer Sir William Herschel. He discovered the planet Uranus in 1809 and presented the concept that telescopes are in essence time machines. And guess who Cosmos cast as the voice of this revolutionary scientist? None other that Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Be sure to catch this intriguing episode featuring Patrick Stewart tonight (Sunday, March 30th) on FOX at 9 pm EST and tomorrow (Monday, March 31st) at 9 pm on National Geographic Channel featuring expanded footage.

Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey is a fantastic series not to be missed.

Ship of the Imagination from Cosmos

~Kaye

Asteroid Near Earth Today Is Closer Than the Moon

An asteroid will sail close to Earth today, flying safely between our planet and the orbit of the moon. We can follow the space rock encounter live online at 

Space.com 

YouTube

"This asteroid, 2014 DX110, is estimated to be about 100 feet (30 meters) across," officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California wrote in an alert. 

"Its closest approach to Earth will be at about 217,000 miles from Earth at about 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) [2100 GMT] on March 5." 

The average distance between Earth and its moon is about 239,000 miles.

Okay, that's close, really close. Go and watch. Then talk about what you think... 

Slooh