“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.” – Mary Shelley

The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. The dusty cosmic cloud is seen against rich starfields just south of the Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across the center of this telephoto field of view, the […]

Thunderstorms today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 75 Humidity. 14 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Bob Hines, right, take in the view from the interactive recreation of the International Space Station’s cupola in the One World Connected gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on March 28, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/QJG6dnM

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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” – Saint Augustine

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Which star created this bubble? It wasn’t the bright star on the bubble’s right. And it also wasn’t a giant space dolphin. It was the star in the blue nebula’s center, a famously energetic Wolf-Rayet star. Wolf-Rayet stars in general have over 20 times the mass of our Sun and expel fast particle winds that […]