Greg Mendell 🙂🖖✨🔭📖

FYI: I’m at same username on the photo sharing and 🧵 app, following the same interests! #Reading, #writing, #science, & #scifi. Okay, and also cats! 😎📖📝🌌🖖

📷 Globular cluster Liller 1 behind piercingly blue stars tmblr.co/ZHSGxTcB8_Oqqi…

If only ... Happy #TrekTuesday youtube.com/watch?v=db2wY5…

"Right, a few more tries and we'll go and save the world, eh?" - Graham to Ryan, Doctor Who, Revolution of the Daleks. Last week was difficult and the path ahead is long. I hope we make it and get those "few more tries."

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

It’s time to turn the page.

For the people, always.

My science fiction work-in-progress includes time travel and branching timelines, with possible dystopian futures. In reality, I’m waiting to see which branch we’re actually on! #writing #sci & #hopingforthebest

Astronomers mapped out a highway to the… danger zones! in a star cluster. Planets are less likely to form in these areas due to destructive X-rays and ultraviolet radiation, as seen in data from @ChandraXray and our now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope: go.nasa.gov/40pur8O

.@Tim_Walz will be an extraordinary vice president. He has brought the joy to people in small towns, big towns, and everywhere in between, and he understands what it means to be a leader who lifts people up instead of trying to beat people down.

“Submitted for your approval … a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind …” and space and time! 🙂

I voted! #HarrisWalz2024

Come closer... Seen in this new #HubbleFriday image, M90 is getting gradually closer to our Milky Way. It's 55 million light-years away, but its orbit through the Virgo Cluster of galaxies has accelerated so much that it's in the process of escaping it: go.nasa.gov/3zSTeHx

Latest used bookstore finds! 🎉📖 #reading #books

Latest indie bookstore haul! 🎉🙂 #reading #books

We saw the comet! This was in Missoula MT #comet

Colorado trip with @JeanetteMendell —more mountains, more art, and our son’s 1st doctoral jazz recital! 🗻🎨🎺

I am a work of art! 🙂

Reading in the Rockies! 📖 #reading #books

Here comes the Going-to-the-Sun Road!