Our featured image is by Giovanni Dal Lago, Italy, of the asteroid Chiron; from the NASA archives. Chiron Recently I read Barbara hand-Clow's book on Chiron. It has many interesting ideas but it ultimately fails as she takes too much from Ceres and gives it Chiron, thus hurting both. I did like her emphasis on... Continue Reading →
C578 Shades of Grey: artist Aubrey Beardsley
Biograph: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an Art Nouveau artist who died at the beginning of the 20th century from tuberculosis on the French Riviera. He had gone there to help improve his weak lungs, but it was too little too late, and he died shortly after arriving. He was born August 21, 1878 at 11:22... Continue Reading →