“All nature wears one universal grin.” – Henry Fielding

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” – Baltasar Gracian

The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier’s famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, debris from the death explosion of a massive star witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054. This sharp image from […]

Showers today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 70 Humidity. 6 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on November 9, 2023: People sitting in the Tuileries Garden in front of the Roue de Paris (France). This 60-metre (200 ft) tall Ferris wheel was originally installed for the 2000 millennium celebrations. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Hove War Memorial. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Hove War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and located on Grand Avenue in Hove, part of the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. Hove was the site of one […]

Casey Denham, aerospace engineer with the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, works with tribal students during a STEM activity at the American Indian Engineering Sciences (AISES) National Conference in Spokane, Washington, Oct. 19-21, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/2pdwaGE

“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.” – Edward Young

There’s a new space telescope in the sky: Euclid. Equipped with two large panoramic cameras, Euclid captures light from the visible to the near-infrared. It took five hours of observing for Euclid’s 1.2-meter diameter primary mirror to capture, through its sharp optics, the 1000+ galaxies in the Perseus cluster, which lies 250 million light years […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 80 Humidity. 7 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.