Michael Wing

6 days ago | theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing

4/18/2025Updated: 4/18/2025If Rodney Smith Jr. gets his way, all boys and girls across America will gain a big brother to look up to—if they pay forward the gesture by mowing lawns for the elderly and disabled. Born in Bermuda, Smith recalled to The Epoch Times how his parents taught him charity as a boy by taking him out to feed the homeless.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing

As full moons go, next month’s will be beyond the ordinary. The so-called Full Pink Moon in May, named after the month’s blooms, will appear to have shrunk to a miniature size and dimmed noticeably darker, and will also block out the red star Antares—the “heart of the scorpion” in Scorpius. Peaking on May 12 at 12:56 p.m. EDT, the Full Pink Moon will rise to the east and hang relatively low in the sky, as it will around the spring equinox.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing

Sometimes a city girl like Brittany Johnson just has to run for the hills. Working a desk job in her dad’s company alongside her husband in 2018, she found herself wistfully sketching out designs for her future cattle brand—the kind for branding cattle with red-hot smoking iron. The couple, who once lived in a bustling western Washington state suburb, longed for their own ranch in Montana where they could raise Highland cattle, though they knew nothing about raising livestock.

1 week ago | epochtimes.fr | Michael Wing

Observez attentivement cette scène printanière avant l’aube : des étoiles filantes jaillissent au-dessus d’un horizon méridional par une nuit sombre et sans lune au début du mois de mai. Cette image d’étoiles filantes apparaît chaque année lorsque la pluie de météores – littéralement la poussière cosmique rejetée par la comète de Halley – entre en collision avec la Terre lorsqu’elle est en orbite autour du soleil, croisant sa trajectoire deux fois par révolution solaire.

2 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Michael Wing

Look closely at this predawn springtime scene: shooting stars sputtering over a southerly horizon on a dark, moonless night in early May. This picture of shooting stars appears annually when the Eta Aquariid meteor shower—literally the cosmic dust shed by Halley’s Comet—collides with Earth as it orbits the sun. The Eta Aquariids’ peak period doesn’t always coincide with moonless nights, but fortunately for meteor viewers, this year’s will.