Beauty Abounds When You Look Around

There's a free show every night.
Just look up when times get dark.

We're floating through space, so during our brief existence on Earth, we can enjoy celestial events all the time, like sunsets, sunrises, moonrises, pretty clouds, and planets. What a blessing. These are the regular events.

I say beauty abounds because it's abundant, if you know where to look.

The moon changes color as it rises!

Cool thing about spotting planets right now, you can see Venus EVERY night, and Jupiter EVERY morning. They stand way out from regular stars, and are commonly mistaken for UFOs[1]. People used to think they were Gods, Goddesses... Venus, Jupiter/Zeus, Mars[2]. Ancient Cosmology first had me interested, back in 2007.

Tonight, 12/13/13, the Geminid meteor shower peaks. It's a special night.

Geminids are crazy!

If the sky in your neighborhood is clear, then this is the BEST meteor shower of the year. I was just talking to a buddy about tonight's meteor shower. We were in the car. He looked up in the Northwest direction and a streaking meteor. Then he saw another. Two meteors in the span of a minute. And the shower's not even peaking yet!

I remember seeing some Geminid meteors a few years ago, and they're not just little meteor flashes. Geminids are known to STREAK BRIGHTLY across the sky. They can be blue/bluish-green!

Colorful streaks like this!

It's an exciting year for space. For a lot of reasons, not just Comet ISON.

If your mind is feeling tense, go outside and try to CALM IT.
Have a seat, take a breath, and keep your EYES ON the sky.