Day 9 overnight was a different kind of cruise.  Ship tossed and turned.  Today, still roiling, so we won't be doing much, again. I'll thus start with, from  Time  magazine , the best space photos of 2025: Galaxy cluster lensing the light of a background spiral galaxy, called an Einstein ring. NASA's Lucy spacecraft, launched in 2021, on 20April2025 payed a call on the asteroid Donaldjohanson ( he was the anthropologist who found Lucy, the fossil skeleton around 3.2 million years old in Ethiopia in 1974, so named because the Beatle's  Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds  was playing in the compound ) between Mars and Jupiter.  Video made from a series of photos taken 2 seconds apart. From the  James Webb Space Telescope , outflow from a newlyforming star called a cosmic tornado. Mid-infrared view of the planetary nebula, NGC 1514. Star birth featuring Pismis 24. About 2026, here is a  video from Space Mog featuring Maggie Lieu on what will happen i...

Before those miracles, a few newsworthy items: At 1:25PM Hawaii time, 83 miles southeast of Kamchaka, at a depth of 46 miles, the  sixth largest earthquake of magnitude 8.8 shook Russia , alarming  those living along any Pacific coastline about an incoming tsunami. Did you know that a tsunami moves at about the speed of a commercial passenger plane?  I used this coincidence in drafting a novel currently titled  6 Hours to Alaska , about a mega tsunami heading for that state from Hawaii. As best as I can determine, Hawaii, more specifically, Kahului Harbor on Maui, experienced about the highest far shore wave, of 5.7 feet, not 10 feet.  However, no damage to that island, or entire state, and, apparently, no deaths from this traumatic event, even in Russia, which experienced a 16-foot wave. The Trump tariffs become real on Friday, August 1, unless he changes his mind.  Details?   Click here . Of course, the  feud between Trump and Stephen Colbe...