“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” – Paul Cezanne

What’s happening inside this interstellar mountain? Stars are forming. The mountain is actually a column of gas and dust in the picturesque Eagle Nebula (M16). A pillar like this is so low in density that you could easily fly though it — it only appears solid because of its high dust content and great depth. […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 90 Humidity. 3 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured the Moon just in frame as Orion prepared for its return powered flyby on Dec. 5, when it passed approximately 79 miles above the lunar surface. via NASA https://ift.tt/geqiFm5

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.” – Freya Stark

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.” – Marianne Moore

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen with the unaided eye even from the depths of a light-polluted city. With […]

AM Rain today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 93 Humidity. 2 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from South.

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.” – Herbert Read