It was one of the better skies of this long night. In parts of Antarctica, not only is it winter, but the Sun can spend weeks below the horizon. At China’s Zhongshan Station, people sometimes venture out into the cold to photograph a spectacular night sky. The featured image from one such outing was taken […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 88 Humidity. 15 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” – John James Audubon
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.” – Gustave Courbet
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.” – Pierre Bonnard
This tantalizing trio of galaxies sometimes called the Draco Group, is located in the northern constellation of (you guessed it) Draco, the Dragon. From left to right are face-on spiral NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and edge-on spiral NGC 5981, all found within this single telescopic field of view that spans a little more […]
PM Light Rain today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 88 Humidity. 13 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/sDGTu20
Are asteroids dangerous? Some are, but the likelihood of a dangerous asteroid striking the Earth during any given year is low. Because some past mass extinction events have been linked to asteroid impacts, however, humanity has made it a priority to find and catalog those asteroids that may one day affect life on Earth. Pictured […]