“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.” – Jean Cocteau

NGC 4631 is a big beautiful spiral galaxy. Seen edge-on, it lies only 25 million light-years away in the well-trained northern constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy’s slightly distorted wedge shape suggests to some a cosmic herring and to others its popular moniker, The Whale Galaxy. Either way, it is similar in size to our own […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 79 Humidity. 14 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018. via NASA https://ift.tt/3eJfDkR

“Through a painting we can see the whole world.” – Hans Hofmann

“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” – Georg Trakl

What happens if you crash a spaceship into an asteroid? In the case of NASA’s DART spaceship and the small asteroid Dimorphos, as happened last week, you get quite a plume. The goal of the planned impact was planetary protection — to show that the path of an asteroid can be slightly altered, so that, […]

AM Fog/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 91 Humidity. 8 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. via NASA https://ift.tt/ZivmyU7

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer