The IT Fairy

11/09/2024

Today's delivery from our lovely butler.

10/09/2024

Our lovely butler trekked to find us at the pool in his tailcoat and 38 degree super humidity conditions to invite us to celebrate our delayed 25 year anniversary with Bloody Marys, fizzy stuff and cake.

08/09/2024

12/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 12, 2024 Verdant Farmlands of Simsbury, Connecticut. The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury on September 15, 2022. The to***co farm where Martin Luther King worked—Meadowood—is located west of the Farmington River, a tributary of the Connecticut River.

11/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 11, 2024 30 Doradus B: NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang. This deep dataset from Chandra of the remains of a supernova known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B) reveals evidence for more than one supernova explosion in the history of this remnant. Unusual structures in the Chandra data cannot be explained by a single explosion. These images of 30 Dor B also show optical data from the Blanco telescope in Chile, and infrared data from Spitzer. Additional data from Hubble highlights sharp features in the image.

10/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 10, 2024 Orbital-1 Launch: 10th Anniversary. An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, January 9, 2014, Wallops Island, VA. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware to the space station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

09/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 09, 2024 A "Green Monster" Lurks in Star's Debris. For the first time, astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). This work has helped explain an unusual structure in the debris from the destroyed star called the “Green Monster,” because of its resemblance to the wall in the left field of Fenway Park.

09/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 08, 2024 Hubble Views a Vast Galactic Neighborhood. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; and finally, IC 1947 sits along the left side of the image.

05/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 05, 2024 Preflight Checks for Astronaut Loral O’Hara. Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara has her Russian Sokol spacesuit pressure checked ahead launching to the International Space Station with fellow crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

04/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 04, 2024 Amazonian Leaders Visit "Space for Earth". Amazonian leaders visit "Space for Earth," an immersive audio-visual installation that draws from near real-time satellite data and images, in NASA's Earth Information Center at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington on Nov. 17, 2023.

03/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 03, 2024 NASA’s Crew-4 Q&A With Students at Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines participate in STEM demonstrations with local students at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station.

02/01/2024

NASA Image of the Day January 02, 2024 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Preflight. Jupiter, top, and Venus, bottom, are seen with the crescent Moon above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continued for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. The agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission was the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.