“Art is born of humiliation.” – W. H. Auden

Gorgeous spiral galaxy Messier 33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas. A prominent member of the local group of galaxies, M33 is also known as the Triangulum Galaxy and lies a mere 3 million light-years away. The galaxy’s central 30,000 light-years or so are shown in this sharp galaxy […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 60 Humidity. 17 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on October 13, 2023: Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Today is actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s birthday. He voiced King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur, in the 2005 film Madagascar More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Raymond III, Count of Tripoli. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Raymond III (1140–1187) was the count of Tripoli (in modern-day Lebanon) from 1152 until his death. The son of Raymond II and Hodierna of Jerusalem, he was a minor when he succeeded his father. After reaching the age of majority […]

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Psyche mission, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the […]

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer

Mu Cephei is a very large star. An M-class supergiant some 1500 times the size of the Sun, it is one of the largest stars visible to the unaided eye, and even one of the largest in the entire Galaxy. If it replaced the Sun in our fair Solar System, Mu Cephei would easily engulf […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 59 Humidity. 18 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia article of the day is Private Case. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Private Case is a collection of erotica and pornography held initially by the British Museum and, from 1973, by the British Library. The collection began between 1836 and 1870 and grew from the receipt of books from legal deposit, and from […]