It’s stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and inside a region known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillars’ appearance is […]
Rain/Snow today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 95 Humidity. 4 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 6, 2023: A house destroyed, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, by an intense EF3 tornado on April 30, 2023. The National Weather Service rated the damage to this house EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds estimated to have been at 145 miles per hour (233 km/h). More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Janet(s). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: “Janet(s)” is the tenth episode of the third season of The Good Place. Written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan and directed by Morgan Sackett, it originally aired on NBC on December 6, 2018. The episode sees Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason accidentally transformed […]
The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset from Washington, DC, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020. The two planets drew closer to each other in the sky as they headed towards a “great conjunction” on Dec. 21, where the two giant planets appeared a tenth of a degree apart. via […]
“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.” – Marianne Moore
“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.” – Freya Stark
It was one of the most energetic particles ever known to strike the Earth — but where did it come from? Dubbed Amaterasu after the Shinto sun goddess, this particle, as do all cosmic rays that strike the Earth’s atmosphere, caused an air shower of electrons, protons, and other elementary particles to spray down onto […]
PM Rain today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 82 Humidity. 6 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Hurricane Erika (2003). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Hurricane Erika was a weak hurricane that struck northeastern Mexico in August of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Erika was the eighth tropical cyclone, fifth tropical storm, and third hurricane of the season. At first, the National Hurricane Center did not […]