Silences by Sivert Høyem, on the album: Lioness

Silences by Sivert Høyem, on the album: Lioness

What’s happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown, was likely a normal spiral galaxy — spinning, creating stars — and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 below and took […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on May 10, 2020: Ogden Point Breakwater during sunset, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada https://ift.tt/3dwWp6S

“I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.” – David Rockefeller

Wikipedia article of the day is Banksia speciosa. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2cOY0tf Summary: Banksia speciosa, the showy banksia, is a large shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae. First collected and described by Robert Brown in the early 19th century, the species occurs on the south coast of Western Australia between Hopetoun and the […]

You need to be in the south, looking south, to see such a sky. And only then if you’re lucky. Just above the picturesque tree is the impressive Carina Nebula, one of the few nebulas in the sky that is visible to the unaided eye. The featured image had to be taken from a very […]

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold takes an out of this world “space-selfie” while conducting a spacewalk on March 29, 2018. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YJCzRy

Rising as the Sun set, the Moon was bright and full in planet Earth skies on May 7 and known to some as a Flower Moon. Near the horizon it does seem to take on rose pink hues of reddened sunlight in this reflective twilight scene. In fact one of the brighter Full Moons of […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on May 9, 2020: Aerial view of Krymsky Bridge in Moscow https://ift.tt/35GEYOu