Hi there, Pals! How are you today? Well, not today, as I’m writing this on Tuesday evening because I won’t have time even to consider starting the thread while I’m at work… Boring, I know. Also, I still feel bad about bailing on hosting twice a week, but my life is no fun right now. Anyway, let’s get on with this thread and hopefully I’ll be able to get back to you. You’re excellent at starting great conversations though so no estoy preocupada. (I’m still playing with Duolingo…)

I’m going to start the day by doing Day 17 of Strong 2. No, actually, I’m going to start the day by looking at Orion (constellation) out of my kitchen window. (I couldn't because it's raining...) And tonight I’m going to fall asleep staring at the North America Nebula on my ceiling. (in case you don’t know what I’m waffling about, I have a galaxy projector.) My fellow space-enthusiast colleague gave me an excellent assignment. I’m supposed to learn facts about the various nebulae and galaxies I can project onto my bedroom ceiling. So I thought I’d tell you about the North America nebula (by heart) as part of our fact-finder fragment:

The North American nebula was first observed by William Herschel, composer, and astronomer (he was more successful as an astronomer because he discovered Uranus and, as far as I can remember, two moons of Uranus and Saturn as well. Anyway, this observation happened in 1786 but it was his son in 1829 who catalogued the nebula as NGC 7000. Max Wolf photographed the nebula in 1890 and dubbed it the North America nebula because of its shape. The nebula is about 2500 light years away from here so it’s not exactly in the neighbourhood. I could go on but it’s getting late and I still have some ironing to do…

All right, Pals, be good, have an easy day and hopefully I'll be able to get back to you over the weekend.