“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

Jupiter’s moons circle Jupiter. The featured video depicts Europa and Io, two of Jupiter’s largest moons, crossing in front of the grand planet’s Great Red Spot, the largest known storm system in our Solar System. The video was composed from images taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft as it passed Jupiter in 2000, on its […]

Sunny today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 55 Humidity. 15 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from East.

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” – Andre Maurois

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” – Carl Sandburg

What’s that near the Moon? It’s the International Space Station (ISS). Although the ISS may appear to be physically near the Moon, it is not — it is physically near the Earth. In low Earth orbit and circulating around our big blue marble about every 90 minutes, the ISS was captured photographically as it crossed […]

Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 67 Humidity. 16 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from East.

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun’s light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun emits light of nearly every color, it appears brightest in yellow-green light. The dark patches in the featured […]