“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.” – Hans Hofmann

“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.” – Ivan Turgenev

A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale. The spectacular cosmic snapshot was released […]

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President Joe Biden unveiled this image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 during a White House event on July 11, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/xudBMWT

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” – Alexander Smith

“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.” – Willem de Kooning

Why do some spiral galaxies have a ring around the center? Spiral galaxy NGC 1398 not only has a ring of pearly stars, gas and dust around its center, but a bar of stars and gas across its center, and spiral arms that appear like ribbons farther out. The featured deep image from Observatorio El […]

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A bobcat surveys the landscape at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in this March 11, 2021, image. via NASA https://ift.tt/TMSaXuq