“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” – A. A. Milne

Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) was just spotted in March, another comet found by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. On July 1 this Comet ATLAS reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. Shortly afterwards the telescopic comet was captured in this frame sporting a pretty greenish coma and faint, narrow ion tail […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 79 Humidity. 13 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Former NASA astronaut Jack Fischer captured this photograph of Lagoa dos Barros and crescent-shaped barchan dunes on the Atlantic coastline of southern Brazil on July 9, 2017, while aboard the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/40ueAbU

“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.” – Hans Hofmann

“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.” – Ivan Turgenev

A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale. The spectacular cosmic snapshot was released […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 84 Humidity. 14 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from South.

President Joe Biden unveiled this image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 during a White House event on July 11, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/xudBMWT

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” – Alexander Smith