- Methow Valley (wa100.dnr.wa.gov)
Drive across the North Cascades Scenic Highway into the Methow Valley and you’ll see a transition zone between two very different types of ecosystems. Dense forests are traded for shrub lands, grasslands, and honey aromas of ponderosa pines, alpine glaciers and jagged peaks for broad, low-lying, panoramic valleys, and precipitation for rain shadows.
- Mimosa (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
MIMOSA (Beta Crucis). Few are the first magnitude stars, as their apparent brightness requires either great luminosity, closeness, or both. Mimosa satisfies the first requirement.
- Mimosa (star) (Wikipedia)
Mimosa is the second-brightest object in the southern constellation of Crux (after Acrux), and the 20th-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation β Crucis, which is Latinised to Beta Crucis and abbreviated Beta Cru or β Cru. Mimosa forms part of the prominent asterism called the Southern Cross. It is a binary star or a possible triple star system.
