MARS AT OPPOSITION: Mars is approaching opposition. On March 3-5, the Red Planet will be up all night long, opposite the sun and as close to Earth as it will get in 2012. Mars shines overhead at midnight 6 times brighter than a 1st magnitude star and looks great through a backyard telescope. [sky map] [photos: #0, #1, #2, #3, #4]

FARSIDE EXPLOSIONS: The Earthside of the sun is quiet, but the other side is not. On Feb. 29th, a farside sunspot erupted multiple times, hurling three CMEs over the sun's western limb. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the expanding clouds:

 God is never wrong

by Galactic Love Reporter  HAROLD BENNETT 

A king, who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who,

in every and all circumstances, said: “My king, do not be discouraged,

because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes!”

One day the king and his slave went hunting, and along the way a wild

animal attacked the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but