Art Quote of the Day
By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Dec 07 2023
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion’s extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 95 Humidity. -1 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 7, 2023: The digital painting Alice in Wonderland (2010) by David Revoy. It depicts the setting of, and several characters from, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Depicted are: Alice and the Flamingo (center), and (top and counter clockwise): the Cheshire Cat, the playing cards, the Mad Hatter, the […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Ford Island. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Ford Island is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the US state of Hawaii. Its original area of 334 acres (135 ha) was increased during the 1930s to 441 acres (178 ha) with fill dirt after the US Navy dredged […]
The mated Russian-built Zarya (left) and U.S.-built Unity modules are backdropped against the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon shortly after leaving Endeavour’s cargo bay. The photo was taken with an electronic still camera at 21:20:21 GMT, Dec. 13. via NASA https://ift.tt/asl8kM5
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” – Paul Cezanne
“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 […]