“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” – David Hockney

Not the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission […]

PM Showers today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 94 Humidity. 12 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. via NASA https://ift.tt/cVdrQCU

“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” – Pablo Picasso

Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly orbit, a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Its brighter than average lunar disk was captured in this dramatic moonrise sequence over dense cloud banks along the eastern horizon from Ragusa, Sicily. Illuminating night skies around planet Earth it was the second […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 91 Humidity. 12 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/xU6nKtu

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Why isn’t spiral galaxy M66 symmetric? Usually, density waves of gas, dust, and newly formed stars circle a spiral galaxy’s center and create a nearly symmetric galaxy. The differences between M66’s spiral arms and the apparent displacement of its nucleus are all likely caused by previous close interactions and the tidal gravitational pulls of nearby […]