“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.” – Beatrice Wood

“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier’s famous 18th century catalog. Since […]

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Justin Hall lands the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone 2 (DROID 2) aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/pMq1ncI

“I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.” – Balthus

“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” – E. O. Wilson

Galaxy NGC 4632 hides a secret from optical telescopes. It is surrounded by a ring of cool hydrogen gas orbiting at 90 degrees to its spiral disk. Such polar ring galaxies have previously been discovered using starlight. However, NGC 4632 is among the first in which a radio telescope survey revealed a polar ring. The […]

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In this image from July 24, 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio completes a session on the Surface Avatar Remote Control Terminal, which investigates how haptic controls, user interfaces, and virtual reality could command and control surface-bound robots from long distances. via NASA https://ift.tt/GCjy5uq