For the first time in decades, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a national park, Big Bend National Park to be specific. It's been confirmed as a member of the sunflower family but it looks NOTHING like a sunflower.
This is definitely a match made in heaven. It makes perfect sense that these two locations would go hand in hand. In fact they have been doing combined events for some time now.
There is some good news this week. NASA officials say Planet Earth is safe from being hit by an asteroid that scientists have been studying for years.
According to NASA Asteroid Apophis will not be slamming into planet Earth within the next 100 years...
The Don Harrington Discovery Center has announced they will not be holding their annual EXPLODE event, but don't worry, they still have some 4th fun planned for us.