Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor’s Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 0C and a low of 0C. 73 Humidity. -6 C currently. 19 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 9, 2024: This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Communication. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Communication is usually understood to be the transmission of information. Many models of communication describe it in terms of a source using a coding system to express ideas in the form of a message. The message is sent through a channel to a […]
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; and finally, IC 1947 […]
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” – Carl Sagan
Venus goes through phases. Just like our Moon, Venus can appear as a full circular disk, a thin crescent, or anything in between. Venus, frequently the brightest object in the post-sunset or pre-sunrise sky, appears so small, however, that it usually requires binoculars or a small telescope to clearly see its current phase. The featured […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 0C and a low of 0C. 72 Humidity. -2 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Wikipedia article of the day is Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in the United States dealing with moral rights in authorship. The Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich (pictured), Aram Khachaturian, […]