“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” – H. P. Lovecraft

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

Ringed planet Saturn will be at its 2023 opposition, opposite the Sun in Earth’s skies, on August 27. While that puts the sixth planet from the Sun at its brightest and well-placed for viewing, its beautiful ring system isn’t visible to the unaided eye. Still, this sequence of telescopic images taken a year apart over […]

Thunderstorms today! With a high of 24C and a low of 24C. 83 Humidity. 19 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. via NASA https://ift.tt/r2O6BWc

“Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.” – Bjork

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” – Alexander Pope

Under dark and mostly moonless night skies, many denizens of planet Earth were able to watch this year’s Perseid meteor shower. Seen from a grassy hillside from Shiraz, Iran these Perseid meteors streak along the northern summer Milky Way before dawn on Sunday, August 13. Frames used to construct the composited image were captured near […]

PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 31C and a low of 31C. 79 Humidity. 19 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.