“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen

They may look like modern mechanical dinosaurs, but they are enormous swiveling eyes that watch the sky. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Observatory is composed of four 12-meter reflecting-mirror telescopes surrounding a larger telescope housing a 28-meter mirror. They are designed to detect strange flickers of blue light — Cherenkov radiation –emitted when charged […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 30C and a low of 30C. 77 Humidity. 14 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey via NASA https://ift.tt/6XAMWTa

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” – William Wordsworth

“Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The last full moon was doubly unusual. First of all, it was a blue moon. A modern definition of a blue moon is a second full moon to occur during one calendar month. Since there are 13 full moons in 2023, one month has to have two — and that month was August. The first […]

“Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” – Mary Webb

As stars die, they create clouds. Two stellar death clouds of gas and dust can be found toward the high-flying constellation of the Swan (Cygnus) as they drift through rich star fields in the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Caught here within the telescopic field of view are the Soap Bubble (lower left) and […]

“Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson