Exploring The Self

On our visit to Mount Wilson Observatory, we met a celebrity of sorts. The final stop of the tour was the telescope Edwin Hubble used. Hubble, as in the man the Hubble Space Telescope was named after. Standing inside the dome and looking through the same instrument he once worked with made time feel suspended. My mind kept circling the idea that some of humanity’s greatest discoveries about the universe were made right there, in that very room. Hubble’s most famous contributi

60-inch Telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory-September 2025 Sometimes the part of you with the greatest potential is the one that has been waiting the longest to be understood.   If you drive up the winding mountain road through the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, California, you eventually reach the Mount Wilson Observatory. Founded in 1904 by George Ellery Hale and supported by the Carnegie Institution, the site became one of the most influential observatories of th

Analog Astronaut looks up at The Milky Way from Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii Disclaimer:  These articles are written by a licensed mental...

Falcon 9 booster from the Crew-11 launch landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ!) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. When we watch a rocket...

Image of the Sun taken on July 16, 2025 from Central Florida using a Seestar S50 telescope. On the morning of July 16 around 8:30 AM in...

‘Tis the season for globular clusters! With a clear sky last night, I couldn’t resist imaging a few. What started as one target turned into a full-on globular cluster marathon… a “Globulathon,” if you will. I captured M92, M53, M3, M12, and M13, each a brilliant swarm of ancient stars. Now here’s where it gets interesting: what do these stellar formations have to do with mental health? As it turns out, more than you might think. They echo the mind in some surprising and mea

Perseverance rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, aboard the Atlas V 541 rocket, initiating its 7-month interplanetary cruise to...

The Whirlpool Galaxy, elegantly captured from Central Florida using a Seestar S50, showcases its stunning spiral structure amidst a...

Trust and vulnerability begin like a night launch—quiet at first, then radiant, rising into uncertainty. Like the Inspiration4 mission...