Gobs and gobs of strange and wonderful and terrible things are happening in this universe right now, and I am pretty sure it’s gonna get a whole lot weirder before this year is out.

You can see a stellar nursery with your bare eyes and I think that is pretty goddamn fantastic. It’s easy to see, too. If you can find the constellation Orion, the Orion nebula is right there, that line down from the belt. It looks like a couple of stars and some fuzz, like a cloud is smearing the view a bit. There IS a cloud there, just light-years away, filled with baby stars and planets and who knows what else (your local astronomer friend or website can help you with those neat and vague details).

A freaking nebula, and you can see it! It’s not much, granted, but once you spot it you will forever see it after, and it stands right out as a fuzzy object in a sky full of mostly blight specks and black (the occasional jet or satellite or comet breaking thing up a bit).

Things are so strange nowadays people half expect a superhero or supervillain to emerge; in the very least, if you saw in the news later today that some kid has a bit of control over magnetism, enough maybe to move a nail across a table or something, would you be terribly shocked and incredulous, or cry out in delight and compare the wunderkind to a little Magneto?

Tad out, tadlings.
Tad Greely
Class of Forever