Science Snippet: Explore Saturn Saturn is currently 824 million miles from the Earth. Over the next few weeks, it will come within 816 million miles before receding again. For Saturn, this is fairly close; at times, it is more than a billion miles away! Still, 824 million miles is a very long distance. In my […]
Alphonsus was born in 1696. He gave himself fully to whatever he did despite trials and difficulties. He began practicing law at the age of 19 and, although he was considered a genius in this career, he gave it up to become a priest at the age of 30. Even though he struggled with extreme
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St. Ann and St. Joachim are two very interesting saints. We don’t really know anything about them except that they are the parents of Mary and therefore the grandparents of Jesus. I like to think about the fact that Jesus had grandparents. He really is one of us! He even has the beautiful blessing called
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St. Charbel Makhlouf, a Maronite hermit, died on December 24, 1898. Since photography was fairly new at that time, there are no known photos of Charbel before his death. But this wonder-working saint has even provided the world with two photographs. One of these was taken in 1950 and the other in 2016. Four Maronite
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Science Snippet: Explore Jupiter Jupiter is much farther away than Mars. Despite this, it is currently close to 40 times brighter. In fact, Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the sun, the moon, and Venus. How can Jupiter be so much brighter than Mars? Jupiter is much larger than Mars. In
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Science Snippet: Explore Mars Anyone who completed my astronomy challenge last year should remember Mars as a brilliant red “star”. But if you try to find Mars now, it won’t look the same; it is over six times dimmer than it was in December. Mars is not very large. It is only about half the
Science Snippet: Explore Mercury Mercury is a difficult planet to observe. It is the smallest planet and it is currently over 121 million miles away. But that is not why Mercury is hard to see. While Mercury may be small for a planet, it is not that small. It is slightly larger than the moon.
Science Snippet: Explore The Sun Our Sun is the closest star; the Earth and all the other planets are in orbit around it. All life on Earth depends on its warmth and light; without it, the Earth would be a frozen wasteland. Let’s learn more about our star and its influence on our solar system.
