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For us who spend a lot of time in the country decorating ideas are not hard to come by. Personally speaking, I think that a great deal of my inspiration comes from the world around me. When I say that, I don’t mean to imply that I use the most obvious aspects of the country around me, only that if you look hard enough you’ll always find a subtle mixture of country decorating ideas that you will be able to incorporate into your own stylish home decor.

Doing your home up with country decorating ideas is great but if you don’t make it blend in naturally with its surroundings your house will just become an eyesore like an invader upon the glory of nature. Haven’t you ever looked at a house in the country and thought to yourself: how beautiful and serene it was, and how much you’d really like to live there?

Have you ever wondered why this was so? Without a doubt, it was for the house’s simplicity and elegance, together with the fact that it blended in so well with its environment. If you live in the country, you’re probably unaware of what I’m talking about and you are wondering why I mention it.

Perhaps you’ve lived in the country most of your life and you just don’t see what is that wonderful about the old country decorating ideas and homes that blend in with nature. After all, a country house is just like any other house that you can find anywhere else. Or so you would think.

Well, in my opinion, you’d be wrong on that count! Country homes are a pure joy for those people who live in a concrete city. So, if you’re fortunate enough to have a house in the country enjoy the it.

When you own a home in the country decorating ideas ought to be flooding into your head nineteen to the dozen and with only a little forethought, you can make your normal country home into a very comfortable country residence.

The only negative aspect I’ve found with this so far is the amount of ideas I receive from my environment. That might not sound like a bad thing, but believe me, there’s not much worse than having country decorating ideas pouring into your mind with almost no pause and not being able to put them all to good use.

However, when this flow starts to happen, I just lie back and let it overwhelm me. I’ve always found that there is no use fighting against the inevitable, although a little dreaming never hurt anyone. If the ideas I’ve had are really good and grab my attention, I write detailed notes about what I’ve dreamed up.

So, no matter whether you want to alter your home into a country residence, or whether you just want to redecorate the home you already have with country decorating ideas, the inspiration should be easy to come by and just as easy to put into place. A country home is the right place to be to rest from your stressful working life.

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Astronomy is the study of the universe. Some astrologers practice it as a serious science while for others it is an educational pastime. For this reason, whenever an astronomy picture of the day is offered to the general public, people usually jump at the chance of looking at it. There are thousands of astronomical pictures to choose from, and plenty of interesting stars to keep people enthralled.

Of course ,NASA is one of the primary sources for an astronomy picture of the day. This site, NASA.gov, shows a new image each and every day. There is also a section that shows videos. These could be used to create your own image site. Saturn’s moon Enceladus was the ‘star’ feature on November 5, 2008.

That footage was taken by a passing rocket. It can reproduce details the size of a bus. The ice on this moon reflects as glare, nearly 100% of all the sun light that hits it. So you would need to wear sunglasses! This moon is so interesting that Cassini will continue to fly by for more pictures later in its mission.

NASA retains an archive of all the astronomy image of the day dating all the way back to June 16 of 1995. It was a ‘what if’ image of the Earth posing as a neutron star. The footage is a computer generation. The most noteworthy feature is that the constellation of Orion is visible twice. Even light from behind a neutron star is visible because the dense star bends the light around it. This causes some objects to be seen twice.

The entry for the 8th of September, 1995 was an amazing photo of the internal section of the ‘Milky Way’ galaxy taken by NASA’s COBE satellite. This area is usually invisible because of the dust masking it. But COBE scans in infrared, so produced that fantastic photo of our very symmetrical galaxy.

The astronomy picture of the day was identical on January 1st, 2000 and January 1st, 2001, the reason being that both dates shared this image is that most people thought of the year 2000 as the first year of the third millennium.

However, the third millennium actually started on January 1st, 2001. NASA reasoned it was just better to just go with the flow and do it on both dates. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010101.html depicts mankind’s view of the universe as it grew from mere objects circling the Earth, all the way to the ‘Big Bang’ creating the universe as we see it today.

NASA has thousands more days with their own astronomy picture of the day. Visit the web site, NASA.gov to see them.

Astronomy: pictures of the day are fascinating to vast numbers of people. If you are interested in astronomy, visit our website at: http://astronomy.the-real-way.com

How much is there to be known or learned about all the objects and phenomenon in the entire universe? Remember that there are about 1 x 10 ^22 stars in the universe, that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars; then that many of those stars have planets spinning around them. Then think about all the moons that orbit those planets and the comets and asteroids, the galaxies these stars form, the nebulae and black holes and everything else that’s out there. The amount of information and data is really quite staggering. This article certainly won’t contain every fact about astronomy. But they are very interesting facts nevertheless.

Let’s take a look at a small subset of astronomy: “the brightest stars as seen from Earth”. That’s discounting the Sun which is about 250,000 times closer than the next nearest star. It’s so bright that when the sky is viewed from the Earth, it washes out all the other stars in the sky during a phenomenon called daylight.

Remember that according to the scale for the magnitudes given, lower numbers are brighter. Our Sun would be about -26.73, while the full moon is -12.6. So, with that in mind, here are the top 5:

#5 is Vega, which is in Lyra, and which means ‘falling eagle’ in Arabic. It’s about 25 light years away from the Earth, with a magnitude of 0.04.

When you are thinking about these astronomical facts, please bear in mind that the ‘brightest from the Earth’ doesn’t mean ‘largest’ or ‘brightest’. The Sun is not the largest or brightest star in the universe or even the galaxy, yet it seems so bright to us because it is near compared to the other stars.

#4 is Rigel – a very bright, bluish-white supergiant star in the constellation Orion. It is a binary star, with an average apparent magnitude of 0.12. It’s scientific name is Beta Orionis. Rigel is Arabic for ‘foot’. It’s about four light years from Earth.

#3 is Arcturus. The name means ‘guardian of the bear’ in Latin/Greek. This star is about 37 light years from us. It is to be found in the constellation of Bootes near the Great Bear. It has a magnitude of 0.00

#2 Canopus. Of the top five, Canopus, the Greek name for the pilot of the ship Argo in the stories about Jason and the Argonauts, is the brightest, but because it is 313 light years from Earth, it’s only second on this list of the five brightest stars seen from Earth. It has a magnitude of -.62.

#1 is Sirius, which translate from the Greek as ‘scorching’. It’s also sometimes called the ‘Dog Star’ because it is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Major, which means ‘The Big Dog’ in Latin. It is situated only 9 light years from Earth, which makes it easily the second closest of these top five. It has a magnitude of -1.44, which makes it very easily the brightest star that can be observed in the night sky.

This information doesn’t even scratch the surface on the subject of astronomy facts but it’s something to consider next time you look into the night sky.

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