“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mysterious blue reflection nebula found in catalogs as VdB 152 or Ced 201 really is very faint. It lies at the tip of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in a dusty complex that has also been called Wolf’s Cave. At the center of this deep telescopic view, the cosmic apparitions are nearly 1,400 […]

AM Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 83 Humidity. 9 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. via NASA […]

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” – Hippocrates

What powers are being wielded in the Wizard Nebula? Gravitation strong enough to form stars, and stellar winds and radiations powerful enough to create and dissolve towers of gas. Located only 8,000 light years away, the Wizard nebula, featured here, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust […]

Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 90 Humidity. 5 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“The view of Earth is spectacular.” – Sally Ride

A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study […]

AM Fog/PM Sun today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 86 Humidity. 4 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.