The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
Now is a good time to observe Saturn - next year the planet is headed for a ring-plane crossing so we won't get as good of a view of the rings as we do now. Here's a nifty online doo-dad that can help you observe the brighter satellites of Saturn:http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/3308506.html?page=1&c=y
Note a group of small sunspots have just come onto the disk. They're not visible to the naked eye but might be nice with a white light or H-alpha filter.
Note there will be a nice pass of the ISS and the Jules Verne spacecraft tomorrow (Wednesday night).See:http://tinyurl.com/3akj65The AT (aka Jules Verne) will precede the station by a couple minutes.
Rolling Rock is running ads telling people to go outside on March 21 to watch their logo projected on the Moon with lasers. See: www.moonvertising.com
Note this is a hoax. The lasers needed to bounce off the bare surface of the Moon would need to be too powerful for safe use. (The Moon's albedo is only 12%).
