What do the famous Eagle Nebula star pillars look like in X-ray light? To find out, NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory peered in and through these interstellar mountains of star formation. It was found that in M16 the dust pillars themselves do not emit many X-rays, but a lot of small-but-bright X-ray sources became evident. […]
Thundershowers today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 91 Humidity. 15 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Elaborate Passiflora incarnata, or purple passionflower, sit pretty in a field at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 13, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/ToSgibZ
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.” – Egon Schiele
“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” – Werner Heisenberg
Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured here is a fireball, a disintegrating meteor that was not only one of the brightest the photographer has ever seen, but colorful. The meteor was captured by chance in mid-July with a camera set up on Hochkar Mountain […]
Rain/Thunder today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 80 Humidity. 17 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin
“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.” – Eugenio Montale
It does what? No one knew that 2,000 years ago, the technology existed to build such a device. The Antikythera mechanism, pictured, is now widely regarded as the first computer. Found at the bottom of the sea aboard a decaying Greek ship, its complexity prompted decades of study, and even today some of its functions […]