<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Hi all,</font><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""> I hope everything is going well…everything is great here…last week I was at Sally Ride Elementary school, it was awesome with the school recently being renamed in honor of Sally…the school has many ties to the shuttle missions Sally flew and i couldn’t think of a better environment to learn than being surrounded by the wonders of spece…tomorrow I will be at Stowers Elementary School…it is so great to get to US schools, it is so much more difficult now that I don’t have access to speakers requests to NASA…</font><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">International travel is still going fun speed..next week is Brazil, the Norway, Mexico, and Back to Brazil, with sweden and Norway which pits me through April…please let me know if you would like me to visit your school…</font></font></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">I hope you were able to see the eclipse…it was awesome from here, perfectly clear sky, seats everywhere, and the eclipse was amazing…so happy I stayed up to watch it…</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><font size="4" class=""> </font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">We
have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in
ourselves, and let those we care about most know…hugs & smiles</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">…</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">:-) :-) </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""> love ya, Gabe</span></font></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p>
<!--EndFragment--></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: x-large;" class="">Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Stuns Viewers</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6F7EC269-EC15-4E8B-9A0D-864CA18A3A34" src="cid:6104F66E-B838-40A0-A6B1-D74FADA652A9" class=""></div><div class=""><h2 class="h3 space-T20" style="margin: 20px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><font size="4" class="">Gorgeous lunar show</font></h2><div class="description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);">The super blood wolf moon lunar eclipse (yes, a mouthful) graced the skies late-night on Jan. 20, 2019, as our lone satellite began its trek into Earth's outer shadow or penumbra, at 9:36 p.m. EST (6:36 p.m. PST). At 10:34 p.m. EST (7:34 p.m. PST), the partial phase of the eclipse began as the moon inched into the umbra, the darkest part of Earth's shadow. At that point, a reddish orb of darkness appeared to creep across the moon's face. The pinnacle of the show, the total eclipse, happened between 11:41 p.m. EST (8:41 p.m. PST) and 12:43 p.m. EST (9:43 p.m. PST), when Earth's umbra had entirely engulfed the moon. Here's a look at the gorgeous eclipse, seen by millions across North and South America, parts of western Europe and north Africa. </div></div></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><h1 class="h1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="5" face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Curiosity Snaps Epic 'Selfie' on Mars as It Moves On to New Martian Sight</font></h1></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="3A21D1B3-3ED3-438A-875E-6188BBA0CBDA" src="cid:5A12BFED-34E9-4EF6-B24E-8F874B4A3800" class=""></div><div class=""><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Curiosity rover on Mars captured 57 images of itself, which NASA personnel stitched together </div><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">into this "selfie.” <span style="font-style: inherit;" class="">Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</span></div></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">We all edit our selfies to capture our best side, and <a href="https://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">the Curiosity rover on Mars</a> is no different, as shown in a new "selfie" NASA released to mark the rover's last days at Vera Rubin Ridge.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Curiosity's favorite selfie trick isn't a matter of choosing the most flattering filter; instead, the robotic explorer favors stitching together shots to build a composite image, creating the illusion that a companion took the picture. The rover has used this <a href="https://www.space.com/39575-mars-rover-curiosity-selfie-vera-rubin-ridge.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">approach for "selfies" before</a> to stunning effect.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">In the case of this new image, captured Jan. 15, the final product is built from 57 different individual <a href="https://www.space.com/41743-mars-rover-curiosity-panoramic-selfie.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;" class="">photographs</a> snapped by the rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager. That instrument is located on the end of Curiosity's arm. [<a href="https://www.space.com/24021-space-robot-selfies-photos-top-10.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">The Top 10 Space Robot 'Selfies' of All Time!</a>]</p></div><div class=""><h1 class="h1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5" class="">Earth Swallowed Another Planet and (Maybe)</font><span style="font-size: 4rem; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5" class="">That's Why Life Exists</font></h1></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C530AA69-2AC1-49EF-A9BB-C917DF619D76" src="cid:DDC6F67E-A991-4663-99F1-5130A5390394" class=""></div><div class=""><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A new theory holds that Earth might have received the elements it needed for life to form from a massive collision with a Mars-sized planet. </div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University</cite><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="3" class="">The ancient collision that formed the moon may also have brought with it all the ingredients needed for life, a new study finds.</font></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="3" class="">Over 4.4 billion years ago, a Mars-size body smashed into a primitive Earth, launching our moon into permanent orbit around our planet.</font></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="3" class="">But a new study finds that this event could have had a much larger impact than previously thought. The collision could also have imbued our planet with the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/28698-facts-about-carbon.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">carbon</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.livescience.com/28726-nitrogen.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjF4K-z6oTgAhWSNd8KHcCyCXAQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=partner-pub-1894578950532504:qaei7k190hq&usg=AOvVaw174SduxFdIPzcZ0EWjALgs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">nitrogen</a> and <a href="https://www.livescience.com/28939-sulfur.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">sulfur</a> needed for life to form, scientists reported today (Jan. 23) in the journal <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3669" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Science Advances</a>.</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=888171fc25f087688450dca5451e1a8ada5f760cc953292b53e6a70b33f6abee4daf0104d2914282d5dc4b2c3c835d0b08d76949e175c42e0496c7ea75e5618d" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Supermassive Black Holes Likely Born in 'Halos' of Dark Matter</font></strong></a></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="59EECDE5-354F-45BA-A3E6-99530EE3524B" src="cid:84C4C048-2D17-4F06-93A4-68D68DF381B9" class=""></div><div class=""><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">A 30,000-light‐year-wide region from a supercomputer simulation called the Renaissance Simulation centered on a cluster of young galaxies that generate radiation (white) and metals (green) while heating surrounding gas. A dark matter halo just outside this heated region forms three supermassive stars (inset), each of which is over 1,000 times the mass of our sun. These giant stars quickly collapse into massive black holes and, over billions of years, eventually form supermassive black holes.</font></div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Credit: Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications</font></cite><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">The birth story of the universe's first supermassive <a href="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">black holes</a> is getting a rethink. </p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Researchers have generally thought that the seeds of these pioneering behemoths sprouted in areas awash in ultraviolet radiation streaming from neighbor <a href="https://www.space.com/13262-65-great-galaxy-photos-space-images.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">galaxies</a>. This radiation inhibited the formation of normal stars, freeing up material for eventual incorporation into black holes, the idea goes.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">But a new study suggests that another phenomenon was perhaps more important in suppressing this type of star formation — the rapid growth of "halos" of <a href="https://www.space.com/20930-dark-matter.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">dark matter</a>, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the material universe (and is so named because it neither absorbs nor reflects light). [<a href="https://www.space.com/14768-dark-matter-universe-photos.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe</a>]</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><h1 class="h1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="5" class=""><font face="Oswald, Arial, sans-serif" class="">A Mirror Image of Our Universe May Have Existed Before the Big Ba</font><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">ng</font></font></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9F2017D1-6045-42C7-994D-8E13BC96F0E0" src="cid:3D6E3C2B-A9FF-4EC9-9ED3-2D50128F30AC" class=""></div><div class=""><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">High mountain peaks glowing in the moonlight. </font></div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Credit: Shutterstock</font></cite><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Like a mountain looming over a calm lake, it seems the universe may once have had a perfect mirror image. That's the conclusion a team of Canadian scientists reached after extrapolating the laws of the universe both before and after <a href="https://www.livescience.com/49958-theory-no-big-bang.html" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">the Big Bang</a>.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Physicists have a pretty good idea of the structure of the universe just a couple of seconds after the Big Bang, moving forward to today. In many ways, fundamental physics then worked as it does today. But experts have argued for decades about what happened in that first moment — when the <a href="https://www.livescience.com/32662-whats-at-the-center-of-black-holes-.html" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">tiny, infinitely dense speck of matter</a> first expanded outward — often presuming that basic physics were somehow altered.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Researchers Latham Boyle, Kieran Finn and Neil Turok at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, have turned this idea on its head by assuming the universe has always been fundamentally symmetrical and simple, then mathematically extrapolating into that first moment after the Big Bang. [<a href="https://www.livescience.com/41923-top-ten-origin-events.html" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events</a>]</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="h1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 40px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5" class="">The Day Edwin Hubble Realized Our Universe Was Expanding</font></h1></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="90266CC4-2DFA-47E8-83CB-9C690D2F2C03" src="cid:D11DBEE3-AF7D-4216-889F-1E176DFE322E" class=""></div></cite></div></cite><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Scientists use a cosmic distance ladder to measure the expansion rate of the universe. The ladder, symbolically shown here, is a series of stars and other objects within galaxies that have known distances. By combining these distance measurements with the speeds at which objects are moving away from us, scientists can calculate that expansion rate.</font></div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech</font></cite><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">This year marks the 90th anniversary of a mind-boggling discovery: that the universe is expanding.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">The discovery was spearheaded by Edwin Hubble, for whom the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is named. As an astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles, Hubble had access to the most cutting-edge equipment of the day, particularly the 100-inch (2.5 meters) Hooker telescope. The telescope, built in 1917, was the largest on Earth until 1949.</p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class="">Since 1919, Hubble had been discovering new galaxies from the observatory, according to <a href="https://cosmology.carnegiescience.edu/timeline/1929" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">the Carnegie Institution for Science</a>. In 1923, he developed a method of measuring the distance between a far-flung galaxy and the Milky Way, which involved calculating the actual brightness of stars in another galaxy and then comparing that value with how bright they appeared from Earth. 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