Hi C.A.E. Discovery Club Gang!
What better way to satisfy your Curiosity, Adventure, Exploration than to Discover and travel the world.
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Prepare to Be FLASHED Tonight!
Join me as I look up just before dawn at Capella’s golden point of bright light that flashes red and green as it’s low in the sky.
Capella is really two golden stars, both about the size of our sun, and the 6th brightest star in our sky.
Just like when two perfectly matched individuals or an individual and an idea, come together they burn so much brighter for us to see.
Capella is a bright star, what astronomers call a 1st magnitude star, that is possible by it shining through Earth’s atmosphere.
The atmosphere splits or “refracts” the star’s light, just as a prism splits sunlight.
Another of our earth’s spectacular treasures, free for all to enjoy if they are willing to go out and look up.
Click the image for more information and details on where to look.
>>> https://earthsky.org/tonight/what-star-in-the-northeast-flashes-red-and-green
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas.”
—Cecilia Payne
… Her fellow astronomers certainly came to appreciate her genius. In 1976, the American Astronomical Society awarded her the prestigious Henry Norris Russell Prize. In her acceptance lecture, she said, “The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something.” As much as any astronomer, she had fully experienced that most important of all scientific rewards….
To read more >>> https://www.amnh.org/explore/resource-collections/cosmic-horizons/profile-cecilia-payne-and-the-composition-of-the-stars
Hey Kids, the gang says to be sure and check out the link on the left “OLOGY for Kids” A science website designed especially for kids from the American Museum of Natural History.
See if you can find this button, then click it: 
Join the CAE Discovery Club Gang and check out this cool Medieval armor:
MET = The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See if you can find the DOT on the map that shows all about Arms & Armor at the MET >>> https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/explore
Interesting article by Andrew Good, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. andrew.c.good@jpl.nasa.gov
“Engineers working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover have been hard at work testing a new way for the rover to drill rocks and extract powder from them. This past weekend, that effort produced the first drilled sample on Mars in more than a year.
Curiosity tested percussive drilling this past weekend, penetrating about 2 inches (50 millimeters) into a target called “Duluth.”
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been testing this drilling technique since a mechanical problem took Curiosity’s drill offline in December of 2016. This technique, called Feed Extended Drilling, keeps the drill’s bit extended out past two stabilizer posts that were originally used to steady the drill against Martian rocks. It lets Curiosity drill using the force of its robotic arm, a little more like the way a human would drill into a wall at home.
“The team used tremendous ingenuity to devise a new drilling technique and implement it on another planet,” said Curiosity Deputy Project Manager Steve Lee of JPL. “Those are two vital inches of innovation from 60 million miles…” ”
to continue reading the article >>>
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/drilling-success-curiosity-is-collecting-mars-rocks
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully drilled a 2-inch-deep hole in a target called “Duluth” on May 20. It was the first rock sample captured by the drill since October 2016.
Thanks to our friends at www.earthsky.org for keeping us up-to-date with these wonders above us!
Thanks to our friends at www.earthsky.org for keeping us up-to-date with these wonders above us!
CURIOUS if a Worldwide Solstice Festival celebration is near you? Check out details at: http://www.solarfestusa.com/
BUT TONIGHT get ready for ADVENTURE as you get ready to enjoy and EXPLORE the Solstice full moon experience safely from your own backyard. Bring out something to draw with and draw a picture of what you DISCOVER.
“In the Northern Hemisphere, we call the June full moon the Strawberry Moon, Rose Moon or Flower Moon. …For the entire world, this year’s June full moon is somewhat unusual in that it’s the fourth of four full moons in one season. Normally, there are only three full moons in a season. But when a season harbors four full moons, the third of these four full moons is often called a Blue Moon.”
I “DISCOVERED” this from my friend Deborah Byrd … Editor-in-Chief of EARTHSKY=> http://earthsky.org/
If you would like to learn more about tonight’s MOON event then visit => http://earthsky.org/tonight/solstice-full-moon-on-june-20
I know while you are there you will find all kinds of fascinating information available on Deborah’s site about our Earth & Sky.
SO if you go out and look at the moon tonight, let us know what you saw, what it made you think about and how it made you feel. I’m sure the rest of the C.A.E. Discovery Club gang would love to hear your observations! Best yet if you took a picture be sure to include it in your post.
Happy sky watching!
If so the CAE Discovery Club Gang found a cool site to check out that gets you started with your research =>KidsKonnect: Memorial Day was first celebrated on May 30, 1868… [ https://kidskonnect.com/holidays-seasons/memorial-day/]
Kidskonnect also has a cool free download “Memorial Day study guide” you can find at https://kidskonnect.com/holidays-seasons/memorial-day/ but as always, be sure to get an adult’s permission before downloading anything!
In honoring those who served and died for us to be a free nation a tradition of playing TAPS (usually on a bugle) is performed.
per YouTube: “This version of taps was recorded by the United States Navy Band at the following locations:
Display Ship Barry, Washington Navy Yard
U.S. Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Twenty-four notes. It’s a simple melody, 150 years old, that can express our gratitude when words fail. Taps honors the men and women who have laid down their lives and paid the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom. Fair winds and following seas, shipmates.”
Mercury is about to pass directly across the sun for the first time in nearly a decade.
The innermost planet of our solar system will look like a small, dark circle cutting across the sun’s disc. In the U.S., the transit will begin shortly after 7 a.m. ET on Monday and continue for more than seven hours.
![October 20, 2016 [TONIGHT] Annual Orionid Meteor Shower](https://caediscoveryclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/orionid-radiant-from-EarthSky-org-672x372.jpg)
