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UPDATE: SOLVED!!
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star.
How I wonder what you are!
Have you been up for a while? Had your coffee? Got those brain cells fired up and ready to rumble? You won’t need many of those cells today, because today’s riddle is real easy. Of course, all riddles are easy if you know the answer…
As before, what I am describing will be something well-known, that you would have been familiar with since childhood. The first one to guess the correct answer can choose the subject of my next blog post (must be related to astronomy; must be researchable).
Okay. On your mark… get set… THINK!
This is considered to be one of the most distant “things” visible from the Earth with the unaided eye.
There was a published description of it before 1000 AD.
Well-known in popular fiction, some of the “guest appearances” made have been in Star Trek, Superman, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
VLA – New Mexico
Although a long way away, this is the closest “thing” of its kind to the Earth.
Visible in the northern sky, you should be paying special attention to the area in which it’s located every November.
“… up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star.
How I wonder what you are!”
How about the Andromeda Galaxy. Rather a large and complex “thing”.
First out of the gate, and….
SOLVED!!!
Well done, Jim! What would you like me to write about Monday?
Okay, guys, I’ve been nice up to now, but next week I guarantee you will have to think longer than 25 minutes!
The hard part will be coming up with a good subject!
I have that trouble two or three times a week!
How about something on the search for other planets in other systems? Methods used, how many have been found, possiblity of supporting life, etc.
You got it! One blog post on exoplanets, comin’ up.