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
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” – Voltaire
How different does the universe look on very small scales? On very large scales? The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons. That film, Powers of Ten, originally created in the 1960s, has been officially posted to YouTube and embedded here. From a picnic blanket near Chicago out past the Virgo […]
PM Light Rain today! With a high of 1C and a low of 1C. 91 Humidity. 0 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
“Good design doesn’t date.” – Harry Seidler
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
Mars looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope views captured in late November from Singapore, planet Earth. At the time, Mars was about 82 million kilometers from Singapore and approaching its opposition, opposite the Sun in planet Earth’s sky on December 8. Olympus Mons, largest of the volcanoes in the Tharsis Montes region (and largest […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 94 Humidity. 1 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Northeast.