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Nature quote of the day

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Jul 21 2023

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal

Galactic Cirrus: Mandel Wilson 9

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Jul 21 2023

The combined light of stars along the Milky Way are reflected by these cosmic dust clouds that soar 300 light-years or so above the plane of our galaxy. Known to some as integrated flux nebulae and commonly found at high galactic latitudes, the dusty galactic cirrus clouds are faint. But they can be traced over […]

54 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Crew Walks on the Moon

By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Jul 20 2023

AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) — Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are […]

M64: The Black Eye Galaxy

By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Jul 20 2023

This magnificent spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its dark-lidded appearance in telescopic views. The spiral’s central region, about 7,400 light-years across, is pictured in this reprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 lies some 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise well-groomed […]

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