Do you see the horse’s head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular cloud complex is reflection nebula IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are made up of very fine […]
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Wikipedia picture of the day on September 26, 2023: Amrum windmill near Nebel, historic building and landmark of the North Frisian Island of Amrum More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Georges Feydeau. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque, remembered for his farces. His first full-length comedy, Tailleur pour dames (‘Ladies’ tailor’), was well-received. After studying earlier masters of French comedy, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin […]
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/3JocTBF
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What’s happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown at the bottom, was likely a normal spiral galaxy — spinning, creating stars — and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, […]
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola