Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics

Another look at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from this morning. Here's three 8-minutes exposures showing its motion against the background of the stars. 🔭

Two towers connected at the back by a drum-shaped building.

White sculpture with huddled figure, squeezed between two book-like slabs, looking up.

Exhibit panel on biological diversity studies featuring a large blue-winged butterfly.

Architectural half-arched and tile terrace.

A bit of book-related research at the UC Irvine libraries.

More than 500 persons heard Mr. Frost’s discussion of the role of a poet in a democracy. He identified a conservative as a person who says he won’t do what he’s just about to do. Then he declared that the government of which I dream is going to refuse to take its own advantage, just as I hope to see the common man refuse to seek his own advantage, as was expected only of gentlemen in the old days.

Robert Frost, conservative by the standards of his day, with wry remarks on what that meant to him. Speaking in 1941 at the Library of Congress.

I’m sad to see this. In our house we always say “Mind the cyclist!” in her voice.

‘A little bit of joy’: can tiny rafts save endangered sparrows from rising seas? In Rhode Island, a small team of researchers and volunteers is fighting, against the odds, to save saltmarsh sparrows from extinction as their chicks drown in ever higher tides

Lovely half-hour documentary. Birds, conservation science 🧪, fieldwork, basic engineering, and a moon that has never been made to look so ominous. Don’t miss the very last minute.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I probably heard it, Seán!

Orange-red rose amid green leaves.

Another day writing/revising. The garden is somewhat neglected but roses are blooming anyway.

I’m glad you had a good outcome and all is well now.

I’m glad you finally got what you needed.

Yes, very sad.

Thank you.

Thank you 🙏

Thank you. I’m happy you had a good outcome!

I feel for you.

🌻

Thank you.

Sorry about your dad. And yes, I know what you mean about being taken seriously.

Waiting is hard. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed.

Thanks. Yes, she will be missed in our small book club. She was also an intrepid traveler and museum-goer.

The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others (Gift Article) Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.

Enjoy the “sensual, percussive poetics” of these blackberries.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data Read more here.

The DOJ sued six states, including Minnesota, for refusing to hand over sensitive voter data. Minnesota SoS Steve Simon said his state’s request for assurance on data protection was met with silence from the DOJ.

“Instead, they chose to file a lawsuit.”

Thank you.

Cloud mostly gray-blue but with a lower part orange.

Ah, thank you! I got the other end of the cloud too actually.

Fuzzy cloud with one part of it, at the top, looking sharper-edged.

Weird but attractive cloud just now.

I completely agree with you.

I’m sorry about your dad 💔

This weekend I went to a service for a friend, a great reader and book-discusser in my bookclub.

Her colon cancer had reached stage 4 before she knew about it.

I mention it, because I once talked another friend into getting a colonoscopy and her tumor was found in time. Do it.

‘Biometric Exit’ Quietly Expands Across U.S. Airports, Unnerving Some

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

Thank you! 🙏