“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wikipedia article of the day is 2019 World Snooker Championship. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2GUoGs7 Summary: The 2019 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 20 April to 6 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 43rd consecutive year the World Snooker Championship had been held at the Crucible, […]

Does the Moon ever block out Mars? Yes, the Moon occasionally moves in front of all of the Solar System’s planets. Just this past Sunday, as visible from some locations in South America, a waning gibbous Moon eclipsed Mars. The featured image from Córdoba, Argentina captured this occultation well, showing a familiar cratered Moon in […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 15, 2020: High altar of Freiburg Minster, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Hans Baldung, 1512–16. https://ift.tt/3art51l

This past weekend, NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy was no exception as he collected trash for disposal during weekend housekeeping activities. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7cp

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.” – Miguel de Unamuno

Wikipedia article of the day is Surrender of Japan. Check it out: https://ift.tt/140RX9x Summary: The surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. Together with the British Empire and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on […]

Why is this nebula so complex? When a star like our Sun is dying, it will cast off its outer layers, usually into a simple overall shape. Sometimes this shape is a sphere, sometimes a double lobe, and sometimes a ring or a helix. In the case of planetary nebula NGC 5189, however, besides an […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 14, 2020: Interior of the church of St Felix, Torralba de Ribota, province of Zaragoza, Spain. The church, of mudéjar and late gothic style was built between 1367 and 1420. The church is a national heritage monument in Spain (known as Bien de Interés Cultural) since 2006. https://ift.tt/2DTbpj3

Through the Artemis program, NASA is working to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7c8