“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.” – Willem de Kooning

Why do some spiral galaxies have a ring around the center? Spiral galaxy NGC 1398 not only has a ring of pearly stars, gas and dust around its center, but a bar of stars and gas across its center, and spiral arms that appear like ribbons farther out. The featured deep image from Observatorio El […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 86 Humidity. 20 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from South.

A bobcat surveys the landscape at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in this March 11, 2021, image. via NASA https://ift.tt/TMSaXuq

“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” – Stephen Sondheim

Why is our Sun so active now? No one is sure. An increase in surface activity was expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle — and even dating back to 2002. The featured […]

Isolated Thunderstorms today! With a high of 36C and a low of 36C. 77 Humidity. 18 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. via NASA https://ift.tt/WoMnkzK

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.” – Lionel Trilling