“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” – Annie Leibovitz

Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait. In the false-color view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the left at […]

Showers today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 79 Humidity. 8 C currently. 31 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 4, 2024: Vintage car meets UNESCO world heritage site: Volkswagen Beetle, export model, built 1957, in front of Porta Nigra in Trier. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Robert Nimmo. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Robert Nimmo (1893–1966) was a senior Australian Army officer and the chief military observer (CMO) of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from 1950 until his death. Nimmo graduated early from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to […]

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines participate in STEM demonstrations with local students at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/1hDN8XE

“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.” – Annie Dillard

What is that unusual red halo surrounding this aurora? It is a Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc. SAR arcs are rare and have only been acknowledged and studied since 1954. The featured wide-angle photograph, capturing nearly an entire SAR arc surrounding more common green and red aurora, was taken earlier this month from Poolburn, New […]

Showers/Wind today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 79 Humidity. 9 C currently. 31 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 3, 2024: Experiment with lens ball and light stick More Info