Under British Skies
Richie Jarvis is the founder of UBS and a member of the AFM Board of Trustees. He is an IT guru by day and an amateur astronomer by night. Richie is also an experienced astrophotographer. He volunteers as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) »
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Patricia, art historian, explained what it was like to be married to an artist living with Alzheimer's as she she was married to late William Utermolhen. William was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1995 but prior to that he was an exceptional figurative painter and »
The Earth As Never Seen Before
[/caption] NASA has just released a 2012 update to its Blue Marble image of the Earth, taken earlier this month using composite images from different swaths of the planet's surface via NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, SUOMI NPP. The Blue Marble 2012 is »
The Most Poetic Idea in the Universe
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Life in the Extreme
[/caption] Extromophiles The conditions deemed necessary for life have been expanded & complicated in recent years, as we have found organisms living in extreme environments that we once thought were barren and even toxic. We are now looking for, and finding »
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