Astro Bob blog: Don't let Comets PANSTARRS and Lemmon out of your sight ... yet
What the heck have comets L4 PANSTARRS and Lemmon been up to anyway? Well, they're still visible in 50mm binoculars and small telescopes. Find out how to stay on their tails, er, trails.
Astro Bob blog: Watch as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury align after sunset
Hey, hey, hey. Three planets are now lining up in a neat row at dusk. Watch for the trio starting 30-35 minutes after sunset when they'll be low in the northwestern sky. Tonight's will be a prelude to next week's closer encounters.
Things to do this week
1. Visit Glensheen Historic Estate free, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 3300 London Road. Tickets can be picked up beginning at 9 a.m. from the ticket house in Glensheen’s parking lot. Call (218) 726-8910 or go to www.glensheen.org.
Poetry Corner: Kawishiwi
Send your poetry to scrapbook@duluthnews.com.
Readings and writers
Deadline for this column is noon Wednesday, 12 days before publication. Send information to Duluth News Tribune, 424 W. First St., Duluth, MN 55802. Fax: (218) 720-4120. E-mail: read@duluthnews.com.
Horoscopes for May 19
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: Keep your personal life a secret. Someone will use whatever information you share against you. Focus on your professional and financial gains, refusing to let matters pertaining to love and friendship interfere with your set goals. Stand up for your rights and do not give in to someone using emotional blackmail to manipulate what you do or say.
First-year robotics students advance to world competition
Last fall, as coaches and students first gathered at Two Harbors High School to see if there was enough interest in forming a robotics team, no one dreamed that several months later they’d travel to the world competition in St. Louis. On April 23, coaches Mark Schlangen and Lauren Burton, mentors and students boarded the bus for the world competition.
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RELATED CONTENTCloquet science students’ research published
Cloquet Senior High School senior Angela Moynan and junior Anna Pollak, along with teacher Cynthia Welsh, former Cloquet graduate Bethany Rosemore, University of Minnesota Duluth professor Jennifer Liang and undergraduate student Brianna Vick, all had their science research papers published in the peer review Zebrafish journal.
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Book Blurbs
“Flannel John’s Pirate Galley Cookbook — Coastal Cuisine and Maritime meals from Oceans, Lakes and Rivers” and “Flannel John’s Mountain Man Cookbook — Frontier Food from the Hills, Country and Backwoods"
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