always, somewhere, the sky is blue

An exciting time to be an amateur astronomer:
The total lunar eclipse today, the discovery of this gorgeous nebula and lots of other celestial events.
Clear skies and a lack of light pollution are great!
IF it is clear where you are, just go outside tonight and study the sky. It is so beautiful!
More about RCW 120 here from NatGeo:
 
In a new infrared picture from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a nebula known as RCW 120 makes a brilliant green “O” against a starry patch of sky.
 
It may look like a portal to Hell ripped through the fabric of spacetime, but this nebula is actually a bubble of gas and dust that’s formed around an “O” type star, the most massive stellar giants known to exist.
 
O stars appear blue in visible light and are very hot: Surface temperatures can be higher than 73,340 degrees Fahrenheit (40,727 degrees Celsius).
 
Because they are so bulky, O stars live fast and die young. Their intense radiation lights up their stellar nurseries shortly after they’re born, and they blow themselves apart as supernovae just a few million years later.

For a special friend with love & hugs--
wishing you everything wonderful in the coming year! XO

for the New Vintage Group contest:
http://www.polyvore.com/multicolor_sandals/contest.show?id=270946

My mailbox is stuffed with Wedding Invites-- What Is Up With That? I thought it was becoming downright unfashionable . . . wow, who knew?

For a very special friend and gifted & talented polyvorian. You are one of the sweetest people in all the land-- you inspire me and make me smile every single time I see one of your sets or read one of your thoroughly charming and insightful comments on someone's sets. If Polyvore had global goodwill ambassadors, I would vote for you.
Hope your birthday was wonderful and that you have everything you dream of in the year ahead. XOXO, skyz.

This is for Ashlee Lauren . . .
great job Sweetie!!