Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

The Great Conjunction: Happy Solstice!

As most of you likely know already, Jupiter and Saturn will align tonight, providing a spectacle in the sky for those with a view unimpaired by cloudy weather. While these planets appear to pass in close proximity (relative to our view from Earth) every twenty years, it has been four centuries since they appeared this close and eight since they were this close at night.

As a bonus, this conjunction coincides with the winter solstice.

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Newspace: The Moon

Lunar exploration has been in the news lately, with China’s Chang’e-5 capsule returning with rock samples, and ambitious American plans to send Artemis II around our moon (with the first ever Canadian on the mission) in 2023. If successful, it will represent the first time since the final Apollo mission that humans will fly so far from home. Artemis III is even more ambitious: humanity will return to the lunar surface.

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The Expanse Review: “Exodus” and “Churn”

JAMES HOLDEN: There was a button. I pushed it.
FRED JOHNSON: That’s really how you go through life?

The best SF space series currently running returns for season five, and the promise of at least one more season that will follow after a hiatus.

We’re reviewing the first two episodes today. Reviews will follow at intervals, typically of two-three episodes, as they drop. The show’s story-arc based nature problematizes individual episode reviews.

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