In 1986, Voyager 2 became the only spacecraft to explore ice giant planet Uranus close up. Still, this newly released image from the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on the James Webb Space Telescope offers a detailed look at the distant world. The tilted outer planet rotates on its axis once in about 17 hours. Its north […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 86 Humidity. 9 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 29, 2023: Duladeo Temple, Khajuraho, India More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is French battleship Bouvet. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Bouvet was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s, and armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns in individual turrets. A top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) made […]
Creating an artistic reflection, a Great Blue Heron skims its wings on a waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 11, 2021. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. via NASA https://ift.tt/6Y2Ubq3
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” – William Hazlitt
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” – Robert Motherwell
For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth’s night. The serendipitous image was captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. The Geminid meteor shower, asteroid 3200 Phaethon’s annual gift, always arrives in […]
AM Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 46 Humidity. 12 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 28, 2023: A depiction of the Massacre of the Innocents from a triptych in St. Lorenz Church (Nuremberg, Germany). Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents in much of Western Christianity More Info