The Old Astronomer’s Milky Way arcs through this peaceful northern sky. Against faint, diffuse starlight you can follow dark rifts of interstellar dust clouds stretching from the galaxy’s core. They lead toward bright star Antares at the right, almost due south above the horizon. The brightest beacon in the twilight is Jupiter, though. From the […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on July 2, 2020: Cusheon Lake is the third largest lake of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. This picture was taken from a pier on a public beach by Cusheon Lake Road in the early morning, about 2 hours after the sunrise https://ift.tt/38jTNHT
Hitching a ride on the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover arrived on Mars on July 4, 1997. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-6Zr
On June 26, 2020, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy conducted the first of two spacewalks to swap batteries and upgrade power systems on the International Space Station. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-6Zp
Has your world ever turned upside-down? It would happen every day if you stay fixed to the stars. Most time-lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. Here, however, the camera has been forced to rotate so that the stars remain fixed, and the Earth rotates around […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on July 1, 2020: North corridor of the Strasbourg train station (Bas-Rhin, France). https://ift.tt/2VPcsqj
June 30 is Asteroid Day. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-6Yn
“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.” – Robert Smithson
Wikipedia article of the day is Maya (M.I.A. album). Check it out: https://ift.tt/31OUKGW Summary: Maya is the third studio album by British recording artist M.I.A. (pictured), released on 7 July 2010 on her own label, N.E.E.T. Recordings, through XL Recordings and Interscope Records. Songwriting and production for the album were primarily handled by M.I.A., Blaqstarr […]
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” – Jerzy Kosinski