“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” – John James Audubon

“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.” – Gustave Courbet

“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.” – Pierre Bonnard

This tantalizing trio of galaxies sometimes called the Draco Group, is located in the northern constellation of (you guessed it) Draco, the Dragon. From left to right are face-on spiral NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and edge-on spiral NGC 5981, all found within this single telescopic field of view that spans a little more […]

PM Light Rain today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 88 Humidity. 13 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/sDGTu20

Are asteroids dangerous? Some are, but the likelihood of a dangerous asteroid striking the Earth during any given year is low. Because some past mass extinction events have been linked to asteroid impacts, however, humanity has made it a priority to find and catalog those asteroids that may one day affect life on Earth. Pictured […]

Thundershowers today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 82 Humidity. 18 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/CLVhEep

Monitoring 68 pulsars with very large radio telescopes, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has uncovered evidence for the gravitational wave (GW) background by carefully measuring slight shifts in the arrival times of pulses. These shifts are correlated between different pulsars in a way that indicates that they are caused by GWs. […]