“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” – Thomas Hood

Spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45 million light-years away in the heated constellation Fornax. Its blue spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this colorful galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small companion galaxy above and right of center, about 40,000 light-years from the spiral’s […]

Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 92 Humidity. 9 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/lj1pKeP

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.” – Stanley Kubrick

“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