“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What’s happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown at the bottom, was likely a normal spiral galaxy — spinning, creating stars — and minding its own business. But then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 85 Humidity. 7 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola

“Autumn is my favorite season.” – Johnny Kelly

What’s rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It’s the Sun. Most sunrises don’t look like this, though, because most sunrises don’t include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising Sun. At times, it would be hard for the […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 92 Humidity. 6 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” – J. Paul Getty

“The good man is the friend of all living things.” – Mahatma Gandhi

An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. To make this one, a 4×5 pinhole camera was set up looking north in southern New Zealand skies. The shutter was briefly opened each clear day in the afternoon at […]