“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” – Susan Sontag

The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation. Visible near the image center, at least two long funnel-shaped clouds, each roughly half a light-year long, have been formed by extreme stellar winds and intense energetic starlight. A tremendously bright nearby star, Herschel 36, lights the area. Vast walls of dust […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 80 Humidity. 18 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” – Aldous Huxley

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” – Frank Zappa

Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft’s wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 32C and a low of 32C. 65 Humidity. 14 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.” – John Ruskin

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” – Voltaire

Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora borealis slather up the sky. The night scene tracks from northwest to southeast across North America, toward the […]