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Art Quote of the Day

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Jun 02 2023

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” – Paul Valery

Messier 101

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Jun 02 2023

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier’s famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse’s large 19th […]

Recycling Cassiopeia A

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Jun 02 2023

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is […]