What Are the Essentials You Need for Camping?
Prepare for your next camping adventure with our essential gear checklist. Discover must-have items and tips for a safe and enjoyable outdoor experience.
Important Precautions for Working Safely on Cars at Home
Master your mechanical skills from your house! But first, you must remember to implement these important precautions for working safely on cars at home.
Freelance Side Hustles Creative People Should Consider
Making a little extra money never hurts, and what better way to do so than with something you love? Discover some freelance side hustles for creative people.
Drain Nightmares: 5 Hair-Raising Stories of Blocked Drains You Won’t Believe
Discover five shocking blocked drain stories featuring lost pets, creepy creatures, and bizarre objects that turned simple plumbing into nightmares.
How To Best Prepare Your Bus Fleet for the Summer
Summer is here, so it’s important that you prepare your bus fleet for the summer heat. How do you do this exactly? Learn more about it here.
5 Reliable Ways To Make a City More Inclusive
For social development and performance, cities must focus on everyone’s needs and offer solutions. Learn five reliable ways to make a city more inclusive.
Stargazing Calendar for June 2023
Hello fellow stargazers! June offers a range of astronomical events, including Mars and M44's close approach, many conjunctions, and asteroid Parthenope at opposition. Meteor showers like the Daytime Arietids and June Bootids also grace the sky. Don't miss them!
Simple Ways You Can Make Your Business Greener
Discover simple ways you can make your business greener and turn your company into an eco-friendly operation that’s paving the way to a green future.
How To Use Storytelling To Create a Successful Pitch
One way to sell yourself better in an investor’s office is to offer your story. Here’s how to incorporate storytelling to create a successful investor pitch.
Saturn’s Moon Mimas Looks Like Pac-Man In Infrared
In an earlier article we have showed you how Saturn's moon Mimas totally looks like the Death Star from the Star Wars movies. Now it seems that Mimas also looks like Pac-Man from the 1980s video game when seen in infrared.
Stargazing Calendar for May 2023
Hello fellow stargazers! This month the big event will be a penumbral lunar eclipse, but there are also two meteor showers, two comets at perihelion, many conjunctions, and one near-Earth object making a close approach to Earth.
5 Tips for Designing Shelf-Ready Packaging
Is your business considering shelf-ready packaging for your retail partners? Use the tips here to ensure you’re designing shelf-ready packaging properly.
Proper Semi-Truck Care Tips To Avoid Expensive Repairs
Semi-trucks require a tremendous amount of care for proper vehicle operation and performance. Here are proper semi-truck care tips to avoid expensive repairs.
Easy Ways You Can Lower Your Home’s Carbon Footprint
Lower your home's carbon footprint with LED lightbulbs, solar panels, and reducing reliance on HVAC. Small changes can make a big environmental impact.
Tips for Planning the Perfect Fishing Trip
Fishing trips are a great way to enjoy your favorite hobby in a new, beautiful place. If you’ve never planned a fishing trip, these tips can help you.
Stargazing Calendar for April 2023
Hello fellow stargazers! This month the big event will be a rare hybrid solar eclipse, but unfortunately it will be visible to only a few small areas of the world. For the rest of us, we have two large objects at opposition: dwarf planet Haumea as well as large asteroid Iris. There will also be two meteor showers as well as many conjunctions.
A Good Time to Observe Dwarf Planet Makemake
On March 29, we have a great opportunity to observe the dwarf planet Makemake. It will be at opposition, which means it will reach the highest point in the sky at around midnight and be opposite to the Sun. At around the same time Makemake will also reach its closest point to the Earth (perigee) at a distance of 51.77 AU. Its peak brightness will be an apparent magnitude of 17.1, which makes it the brightest trans-Neptunian object after Pluto.
A Good Time to Observe Dwarf Planet Ceres
On March 21, we have a great opportunity to observe the dwarf planet Ceres. It will be at opposition, which means it will reach the highest point in the sky at around midnight and opposite to the Sun. At the same time Ceres will be closest to the Earth (perigee) at a distance of 1.59 AU. At this time it will be the brightest, with an apparent magnitude of 6.9. Look in the constellation of Coma Berenices with binoculars or a telescope.
Stargazing Calendar for March 2023
Hello fellow stargazers! This month we only have one small meteor shower, but instead we can look forward to a comet visiting the inner solar system (just barely) and more interestingly two dwarf planets at opposition - Ceres and Makemake.
Mimas and Iapetus, Two Odd Moons of Saturn
Saturn has a lot of moons. Two of them are really odd, and bear a striking resemblance to the Death Star from the Star Wars movies. Mimas has a crater of approximately the same scale as the one on the Death Star. Iapetus also has large craters, but the resemblance lies in its equatorial ridge.
