“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr

Where else might life exist? One of humanity’s great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of distant exoplanet K2-18b. The planet and its parent star, K2-18, lie about 124 light years away toward […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 75 Humidity. 15 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from South.

via NASA https://ift.tt/PlgtWdF

“The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.” – Jean Ingelow

“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.” – Robert Delaunay

Do stars always create jets as they form? No one is sure. As a gas cloud gravitationally contracts, it forms a disk that can spin too fast to continue contracting into a protostar. Theorists hypothesize that this spin can be reduced by expelling jets. This speculation coincides with known Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, young stellar objects […]

AM Light Rain today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 93 Humidity. 16 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” – Walter Scott