Gamma Cassiopeiae shines high in northern autumn evening skies. It’s the brightest spiky star in this telescopic field of view toward the constellation Cassiopeia. Gamma Cas shares the ethereal-looking scene with ghostly interstellar clouds of gas and dust, IC 59 (top left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren’t actually ghosts. They […]
PM Showers today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 82 Humidity. 10 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 28, 2023: Reflection of the sky in the glass facade of a building in Parque Cultural Paulista located on Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Smooth toadfish. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The smooth toadfish (Tetractenos glaber) is a species in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae. It is native to shallow coastal and estuarine waters of southeastern Australia, where it is widespread and abundant. French naturalist Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville described the species […]
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. via NASA
“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Vision is the true creative rhythm.” – Robert Delaunay
History’s second known periodic comet is Comet Encke (2P/Encke). As it swings through the inner Solar System, Encke’s orbit takes it from an aphelion, its greatest distance from the Sun, inside the orbit of Jupiter to a perihelion just inside the orbit of Mercury. Returning to its perihelion every 3.3 years, Encke has the shortest […]
Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 95 Humidity. 9 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Battle of Settepozzi. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Battle of Settepozzi was fought in 1263 off the Greek island of Spetses between a Genoese–Byzantine fleet and a Venetian fleet (Venetian galley pictured). Genoa had been engaged in the War of Saint Sabas against Venice since 1256, and had […]