“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.” – Pierre Bonnard

More than 37,000 people registered to attend the NASA Langley open house. Nils Larson, X59 pilot and Astronaut Victor Glover reunited at Langley’s hangar and hosted by Center Director Clayton Turner. via NASA

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein

There goes another one! Volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io keep erupting. To investigate, NASA’s robotic Juno spacecraft has begun a series of visits to this very strange moon. Io is about the size of Earth’s moon, but because of gravitational flexing by Jupiter and other moons, Io’s interior gets heated and its surface has become […]

PM Light Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 90 Humidity. 5 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Wikipedia picture of the day on October 23, 2023: Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis ispida) female with dragonfly larva, Hungary. October 23rd marks the day of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is The Kinks’ 1965 US tour. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The English rock band the Kinks staged their first concert tour of the United States in June and July 1965, following concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and a tour of the United Kingdom. Initially one of […]

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” – Raoul Dufy

What does this aurora look like to you? While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern Canada early one morning in 2013, a most unusual aurora appeared. The aurora definitely appeared to be shaped like something, but what? Two ghostly possibilities recorded by the astrophotographer were “witch” and “goddess of dawn”, but please […]